Apple Introduces M4 Chip for iPad Pro

<p><strong>CUPERTINO<&sol;strong> &&num;8212&semi; Apple has introduced M4&comma; its most powerful chip to date and will be available in the all-new iPad Pro&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Built using second-generation 3-nanometer technology&comma; M4 is a system on a chip &lpar;SoC&rpar; that advances the industry-leading power efficiency of Apple silicon and enables the incredibly thin design of iPad Pro&period; It also features an entirely new display engine to drive the stunning precision&comma; color&comma; and brightness of the breakthrough Ultra Retina XDR display on iPad Pro&period; A new CPU has up to 10 cores&comma; while the new 10-core GPU builds on the next-generation GPU architecture introduced in M3&comma; and brings Dynamic Caching&comma; hardware-accelerated ray tracing&comma; and hardware-accelerated mesh shading to iPad for the first time&period; M4 has Apple’s fastest Neural Engine ever&comma; capable of up to 38 trillion operations per second&comma; which is faster than the neural processing unit of any AI PC today&period; Combined with faster memory bandwidth&comma; along with next-generation machine learning &lpar;ML&rpar; accelerators in the CPU&comma; and a high-performance GPU&comma; M4 makes the new iPad Pro an outrageously powerful device for artificial intelligence&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The new iPad Pro with M4 is a great example of how building best-in-class custom silicon enables breakthrough products&comma;” said Johny Srouji&comma; Apple’s senior vice president of Hardware Technologies&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The power-efficient performance of M4&comma; along with its new display engine&comma; makes the thin design and game-changing display of iPad Pro possible&comma; while fundamental improvements to the CPU&comma; GPU&comma; Neural Engine&comma; and memory system make M4 extremely well suited for the latest applications leveraging AI&period; Altogether&comma; this new chip makes iPad Pro the most powerful device of its kind&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Delivering a giant leap in performance over the previous iPad Pro with M2&comma; M4 consists of 28 billion transistors built using a second-generation 3-nanometer technology that further advances the power efficiency of Apple silicon&period; M4 also features an entirely new display engine designed with pioneering technologies&comma; enabling the stunning precision&comma; color accuracy&comma; and brightness uniformity of the Ultra Retina XDR display&comma; a state-of-the-art display created by combining the light of two OLED panels&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"pagebody-copy">M4 has a new up-to-10-core CPU consisting of up to four performance cores and now six efficiency cores&period; The next-generation cores feature improved branch prediction&comma; with wider decode and execution engines for the performance cores&comma; and a deeper execution engine for the efficiency cores&period; And both types of cores also feature enhanced&comma; next-generation ML accelerators&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"pagebody-copy">M4 delivers up to 1&period;5x faster CPU performance over the M2 in the previous iPad Pro&period; Whether working with complex orchestral music files in Logic Pro or adding highly demanding effects to 4K video in LumaFusion&comma; M4 boosts performance across pro workflows&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;