When Apple launched its M2 chip at WWDC 18 months ago, in June 2022, pretty well everyone saw it as evolutionary, significantly faster than its predecessor the M1, but offering little real change in capability. In this article, which follows on from last week’s about changed support for AI, I take a deeper dive inside Apple silicon to discover whether the M2 is more than we thought at the time. The clues come in the instruction set supported by CPU cores inside the chips. When comparing chips, e...