Apple’s M4 chip is on the way. What kind of performance can you expect and when will it launch? Here's what we know so far.
Apple has just announced a new slate of iPads, including an updated iPad Pro. What has that got to do with the M4 chip? Quite a lot, as those iPad Pro tablets come equipped with the M4, shockingly enough. That gives us plenty of information on what the chip might be capable of — and what it could be like when it finally arrives in the Mac.
And yet, here we are with an M4 iPad Pro having just launched at Apple’s Let Loose event in May 2024. It feels weird for all kinds of reasons, not least because it’s the first time an iPad has received new-generation Apple silicon chip before a Mac. Because orders are available today, the M4 iPad Pro will be out in the public in just one week, which will give us a better idea of just how powerful it is.
That would mean the regular fall launch window is the most likely time we’ll see the M4 appear inside a Mac. Well, Apple revealed some interesting details at its iPad event on May 7. There, Apple hardware executive Tim Millet explained that the M4 is made using a second-generation 3nm process that is more efficient than what came before it . There’s an all-new display engine, while both the CPU and the GPU have been tuned up.
The M4 also contains an updated 16-core Neural Engine that can perform up to 38 trillion operations per second . Apple says it’s more powerful than any neural processing unit in any AI PC today, which is an important claim given Apple’s rather slow approach toward reacting to the surge in interest in generative AI.
We’re also hoping Apple will bump up the base memory in its MacBooks from 8GB to 16GB. As the memory is built directly into Apple’s chips, that’s something that could mean a sizable change in the M4 series. If Apple is serious about AI, this is an upgrade that could really help.
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