Apple introduces M4 chip (in the iPad Pro)
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/ ... s-m4-chip/
M4 delivers up to 1.5x faster CPU performance over the powerful M2 in the previous iPad Pro.1
TSMC? 3nm node, ARM v9, SVE2 and SME2 speculated:M4 has Apple’s fastest Neural Engine ever, capable of up to 38 trillion operations per second, which is faster than the neural processing unit of any AI PC today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_M4It is rumored the Apple M4 is Apple's first SoC which uses the ARMv9 architecture for its CPU cores, ARMv9.4 to be specific.[7][8] It also could support Arm's SME2 extension,[9] which was announced in 2022[10] and is a superset of SME and SVE2,[11] to accelerate matrix operations. This is likely the cause of the majority of the estimated 7.6% Instructions Per Cycle (IPC) uplift from M3 Max, which would only be 3.0% without the new matrix extensions.[12]
Apple M4 launch in 2024 with Mac Studio/Pro into mid/late 2025:
https://www.macrumors.com/guide/m4-mac-studio/
https://www.laptopmag.com/laptops/macbo ... -new-chips
And, Apple is going to join the AI silicon race on server side, w/o telling further details:
Apple built custom servers and OS for its AI cloud
https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/11/ ... ervers_os/
This is called vertical integration, Commodore did this back then in the 70s, when it bought MOS Technology with the 6502 processor.
Might be interesting, if there will be descendants from Apple server silicon to Mac Studio/Pro.
Back then, in Steve Jobs times, there was the Apple XServe for example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xserve
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