Of course, Apple May already have an M3 chipthe decrease ratio is M2 one year later Saw the light. Sure, the company’s M-series chip line has proven to be the best among computer processors, but even that isn’t enough.According to the latest rumors from 1 Infinite Loop’s corner, Apple will release another chip this year, the legendary M4, as well as a newly produced iMac, MacBook, and even a new Mac Mini. This new chip is going to be very AI-centric, and let’s be honest, we’re every bit as enthusiastic about it as you would be if you told us it was also made from candy.
The M3 has only been in the cradle for five months, but new reports suggest a new product is coming and is already in production.Bloomberg’s Apple guru Mark Gurman wrote On Thursday, Apple will try again with a new chip design to help market more laptops and computers. The chip will once again be available in three different flavors, according to insiders Gurman spoke on condition of anonymity.
Last year’s M3 series included the base chip, M3 Pro and M3 Max. While Apple previously released the M2 Ultra as its largest enterprise-class processor, Apple prefers to update its entire Mac lineup to feature these new CPUs.
The Cupertino, California-based company may launch these new Macs later this year. Global Developers Conference 2024 Set to take place in June, we’re already expecting it to have a huge impact on artificial intelligence, although it’s likely to focus on Telephone, tabletand maybe others Wearable device. Gurman noted that the company will likely talk about the M4 chip at the largest technology conference of the year.
Which new Apple products will reportedly be equipped with the new M4 chip?
So if Gurman’s words are to be believed, we’re once again going to see a slew of new Macs padding an already crowded lineup. Bloomberg suggests we’ll be getting a new iMac (although the dimensions weren’t revealed, we’re hoping for a new 32-inch model), Low-end 14-inch MacBook Pro, with high-end 14-inch and 16-inch varieties.Most interestingly, we might see a new mini computer, this design seems to skip the M3 chip entirely. According to Bloomberg, the Mac Pro may also end up getting the most powerful version of the M4, currently called Hydra.No word yet on new upgrades Mac Studioso we’ll have to wait and see.
While Apple released the M2 MacBook Pro in January 2023, the company also launched the M3 MacBook in October of the same year. They include some modest performance updates and are easily the most powerful MacBooks yet, but they’re also very similar to the previous M2 series.
The M4 chip will reportedly last until 2025, at which point the company will ostensibly release more products with the new chip, including a new MacBook Air. We were initially hoping to get more mileage out of the M3 than what we saw on the surface, so who knows if Apple would have tried to sell us an M5 chip at that time, too. The Cupertino company is reportedly trying to make up for sluggish Mac sales in 2022-2023. Mac shipments decline in early 2023As of the end of September last year, the company’s Mac sales fell 27%.company’s Last quarter earnings report Data as of December 30 last year show that Mac sales increased only slightly compared with the same period in 2022.
Why is everyone releasing new chips all of a sudden?
Hype aside, Apple may be particularly worried about competition and all the hoopla surrounding “artificially intelligent computers.” Intel takes action Its Meteor Lake series of mobile chips, such as Intel Core Ultra 7 and Core Ultra 9. Most of this year’s new Windows-based PCs come with this slogan: and copilot buttonwhich should provide quick access to Microsoft AI based on OpenAI models.
Qualcomm will release the ARM-based CPU Snapdragon X Elite in June. The company told Gizmodo (and gave us some insight in some live benchmarks) that the new chip outperforms the Ultra 7 in benchmark performance and is 60% more energy efficient for the same functionality. The company also claims its artificial intelligence capabilities are 4.5 times more powerful than Intel’s current chips.
These claims center around the NPU, which Qualcomm says has a top processing speed of 45 TOPS, which stands for “trillions of operations per second.” Of course, Intel has another series of chips in the pipeline, the Lunar Lake series, which the company recently launched. claim Its NPU alone has 45 TOPS, and furthermore, the CPU can perform more than 100 TOPS in total. It’s a silly marketing spiel, but that’s where we are in the CPU market today.
Interestingly, Apple’s M-series chips already have neural processing components; it’s just that the company hasn’t had to say it until now. The company started mentioning this with the latest release of the MacBook Air, and it only seems to get louder from here.We’re already Regular M3 chip side by side with Intel Core Ultra 7 In the Dell XPS 14, they’re found to be relatively comparable, although the M3 still wins in terms of single-threaded capabilities.
The current M3 chip can run chatbots locally rather than in the cloud (although not as fast as one would like based on our testing on an M3 MacBook Air). The same goes for current Meteor Lake chips, although you won’t find any of the biggest brands promoting this software right now that doesn’t run in the cloud. Given all the new chips coming out, the emergence of “AI PCs” seems premature as they all want to claim they will have on-device AI capabilities. Then again, we’re just tired of empty promises. It would be even worse if these new M4 MacBooks looked and functioned identically to the M3, which looks and functions exactly like the M2. Knowing how quickly these new chips are being rolled out, we don’t have high hopes.