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New MacBook Pro Features Apple’s M4 AI Chip

New MacBook Pro Features Apple’s M4 AI Chip

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Apple has officially unveiled the 2024 MacBook Pro, powered by its most advanced chip to date, the M4. Available for preorder now, the new MacBook Pro joins the refreshed iMac and Mac mini in adopting the M4 processors, signaling a leap forward in speed and AI capabilities. Promising enhanced performance across all three configurations, Apple says the new device will launch Nov. 8 at a starting price of $1,599. “MacBook Pro is an incredibly powerful tool that millions of people use to do their life’s best work, and today we’re making it even better,” John Ternus, Apple’s senior vice president of Hardware Engineering, said in a press release. Must-read Apple coverage Learn more about each new MacBook model Each MacBook Pro comes equipped with Thunderbolt 4 or 5 ports, an HDMI port for up to 8K resolution, a SDXC card slot, a MagSafe 3 port for charging, and a headphone jack. The device comes in two colors: black or silver. The 2024 MacBook Pro line is differentiated by three versions of the M4 chip: The …

Standalone Mac Mini Will Include M4 Chip, Price Starts at 9

Standalone Mac Mini Will Include M4 Chip, Price Starts at $599

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Apple’s Mac mini, a compact, computer-only package without included peripherals, now follows the tech giant’s trend toward in-house silicon with the latest M4 chip upgrade. The form factor of just five-by-five inches — half the size of the previous version — holds 16GB in the base model. The Mac mini starts at $599 for the 16GB model, with the M4 Pro version priced at $1,399, featuring 64GB of unified memory and 273GB/s of memory bandwidth. Customers can pre-order now and pick it up in stores on Nov. 8. The 2024 Mac mini is just five inches by five inches square. Image: Apple “The new Mac mini delivers gigantic performance in an unbelievably small design thanks to the power efficiency of Apple silicon and an innovative new thermal architecture,” John Ternus, Apple’s senior vice president of hardware engineering, said in a press release. Both models include HDMI, while M4 Pro doubles data transfer throughput with Thunderbolt 5 The 2024 Mac mini features: 10-core CPU. 10-core GPU. Thermal venting through the foot to keep the small form …

Apple Said to Use In-House Server Chips to Power AI Tools Coming to iPhone, iPad, and Mac Computers This Year

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Apple Inc. will deliver some of its upcoming artificial intelligence features this year via data centers equipped with its own in-house processors, part of a sweeping effort to infuse its devices with AI capabilities. The company is placing high-end chips — similar to ones it designed for the Mac — in cloud-computing servers designed to process the most advanced AI tasks coming to Apple devices, according to people familiar with the matter. Simpler AI-related features will be processed directly on iPhones, iPads and Macs, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the plan is still under wraps. The move is part of Apple’s much-anticipated push into generative artificial intelligence — the technology behind ChatGPT and other popular tools. The company is playing catch-up with Big Tech rivals in the area but is poised to lay out an ambitious AI strategy at its Worldwide Developers Conference on June 10. Apple’s plan to use its own chips and process AI tasks in the cloud was hatched about three years ago, but the company accelerated …

Apple M4 Chip With On-Device AI, Ray Tracing and Ultra Retina XDR Display Support Launched

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Apple on Tuesday unveiled its M4 chip, the company’s most powerful Apple Silicon processor to date. The new chipset is built on the firm’s second-generation 3nm technology and powers the latest iPad Pro (2024) models launched at its ‘Let Loose’ launch event with new ‘Tandem OLED’ screens. It is equipped with up to 10 CPU cores and comes with an upgraded Neural Engine with support for up to 38 trillion operations per second, improving the performance of on-device AI task on the company’s new iPad Pro. During the launch of the iPad Pro (2024) on Tuesday, the Cupertino company revealed that the new M4 chip comprises 28 billion transistors and has up to four performance cores and six efficiency cores — both equipped with improved machine learning accelerators. It is built on Apple’s second-generation 3nm technology and the company says it offers 1.5 times faster CPU performance compared to the iPad Pro (2022) that is powered by an M2 chip. Apple’s new M4 chip has up to 4 performance cores and 6 efficiency coresPhoto Credit: Apple   …