The Pro supports two, the Max four, according to the info presented.
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Apple Announces M1 Pro and M1 Max Chips Designed for New MacBook Pro
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And 1000 people bashing Intel or any other company not called Apple.
It's not a matter of chips, it's a matter of supporting the OS and libraries included. The Intel chips are the same as the PC ones, so they could do it now...the GPU support is probably holding things back currently, and the M1 chips don't have that bottleneck. Switching to develop for a new OS, new hardware, new libraries, that all takes resources, and some companies just have not wanted to go there.
That said, the speed on display here really should attract game companies, these things are massively fast and can parallelize really well, all in a laptop form factor. If Apple doesn't overprice them (no price mentioned yet), they may sell a boatload, and enough of those will get gaming companies to produce games. We'll just have to wait and see how it shakes out.
M1 is about the fastest single-core CPU but not super fast in multi-core. M1 Pro (Max) might be twice as fast in multi-core, but I doubt it'll double the single-core speed. Actually in the event they're saying it's about as fast as the "fastest CPU they could find" but with 100W less TDP. Which is still amazing.
If this is what is powering the MacBook Pros I can only imagine the beast that will be powering the Mac Pro.
I think by designing larger chips means Apple has delivered the extent of the current technology to us. The M2 chip range will really have a high bar to meet given these chips looking like minor spec bumps of the M1.
Well they certainly should boost the FPS running Windows for ARM comparable games under parallels. I think I read the M1 resulted in only about 30 FPS.
