Apple has unveiled its new M4 chip at the ‘Let Loose’ event, marking a significant milestone in AI and machine learning capabilities. The M4 chip, built on a second-gen 3nm process, features four performance and six efficiency cores along with a 10-core GPU. Apple claims that the M4’s CPU is 50% faster compared to the M2, with a GPU that’s four times quicker. Memory bandwidth has also been improved with speeds of up to 120GB/s.
For the first time in the iPad line, Apple is adding support for dynamic caching, hardware-accelerated ray tracing, and hardware-accelerated mesh shading. The M4 also features an upgraded 16-core neural engine that can perform up to 38 trillion operations per second, which is 60x times faster than the company’s first NPU in the A11 Bionic.
The M4’s neural engine will support and accelerate tasks like real-time Live Captions, subject isolation during videos in Final Cut Pro, and automatic musical notation in StaffPad. Other capabilities of the M4 chip include AV1 hardware acceleration and reduced memory requirements when performing inference-based workloads.
Apple’s M4 chip will be available first on the new 11- and 13-inch iPad Pros, which are available for pre-order today prior to official sales going live on May 15. This development signifies Apple’s continuous efforts to innovate and stay ahead in the competitive tech market.
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