Apple silicon articles

Apple M4 arrives less than a year after M3 as the AI PC battle looms

Something to look forward to: With its newly announced iPads, Apple is fast-tracking the introduction of its M4 processors to compete in the upcoming AI PC race. Although the Cupertino giant claims it has the most powerful NPU on the market, Qualcomm might disagree. Meanwhile, Intel is preparing significant AI performance upgrades over the next year, and Nvidia claims that its GPUs reign supreme in generative AI.

Apple hints at major AI reveal, softens stance on EU dev fee after $23.6 billion quarterly profit

Apple will favor on-device AI over cloud processing, more evidence suggests

Apple said to be prepping several M4 Macs for late 2024 and early 2025 focusing on AI

Unpatchable Apple Silicon vulnerability could leak encryption keys

In brief: Hardware-based security flaws have become more frequent over the last several years but have mostly affected Intel and AMD processors. Now, Apple joins those ranks with a recently discovered vulnerability that causes Mac M-series CPUs to expose encryption keys. Since it is hardware-based, there is little users can do besides keeping macOS updated.

Apple's Car was powered by a custom chip that was equivalent to four M2 Ultras

Apple shows off state-of-the-art lab where its homegrown silicon is designed and developed

Apple says 8GB of RAM on M3 MacBooks is similar to 16GB on Windows PCs

New speculative execution hack can expose passwords and other sensitive data on Apple SoCs

Apple A17 Pro SoC single-core benchmark score close to the Intel i9-13900K and AMD 7950X

Apple is already working on chips for future iPhones and Macs

Apple M3 Max chip powering next-gen MacBook Pros could have 16 CPU cores & 40 GPU cores

Apple M2 Ultra can double the performance of M2 Max in many tests, proving claims true

Early benchmarks suggest Apple M2 Ultra could be slower than Core i9-13900KS, RTX 4080

Apple has a new porting toolkit to run DirectX 12 games on macOS

Apple is already testing M3 chip with 12 CPU cores and 18 GPU cores

LockBit ransomware targeting Apple Silicon said to be in early development

Apple suspended M2 chip production for two months over weak Mac sales

Upcoming MacBook Air, including a new 15-inch model, said to feature 8-core M3 chip

Apple's next MacBook Air and iMac could ship with 3nm-based M3 chips from TSMC

Apple refreshes MacBook Pros with M2 Pro and M2 Max chips

In brief: Apple has rejuvenated its 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros with the M2 Pro and M2 Max processors, its latest homegrown silicon. MacBook Pro models with M2 Pro can be configured with either a 10-core or 12-core CPU for up to 20 percent more performance over the M1 Pro and up to 32GB of unified memory with 200GB/s of bandwidth. Buyers can also opt for a 19-core GPU that's said to deliver up to 30 percent more graphics performance alongside a neural engine that's 40 percent faster than before.

Apple is working on in-house chips to reduce its reliance on Qualcomm and Broadcom

The iPhone 14 Pro almost supported ray tracing

Plugable claims its USB adapter allows up to four monitors for Apple M1 and M2 devices

Apple said to be testing multiple Mac Pro configurations including one with 48 CPU cores

In a nutshell: The next version of Apple's high-end Mac Pro is expected to be the first to feature Apple Silicon. Apple insider Mark Gurman believes the Mac Pro could be offered with multiple chip options that are at least two to four times as powerful as the M2 Max and has affectionately dubbed them the M2 Ultra and M2 Extreme. These chips are said to feature 24 and 48 CPU cores, respectively, alongside 76 and 152 graphics cores, and up to 256 gigabytes of system memory.