🤗 🎁 🚣🏾 Why is Apple's M1 chip so fast? 🏿 🤽🏾 🌚

The experience of using new poppies with M1 begins to dot the i. These chips are fast. Very fast. But why? What's the magic?

I watched a video on Youtube where the author bought the iMac last year with the maximum configuration. A machine with 40+ Gb of RAM cost him about $ 4000. He watched in disbelief as his hyper-expensive iMac was blown to smithereens by a brand new Mac mini with an M1 on board, which cost about $ 700.

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Why is Apple's M1 chip so fast?