{"id":43108,"date":"2024-05-07T11:17:44","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T15:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=43108"},"modified":"2025-03-19T14:47:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T18:47:43","slug":"apple-m4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/07\/apple-m4\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple M4"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple<\/a> (Hacker News<\/a>, Slashdot<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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Built using second-generation 3-nanometer technology, M4 is a system on a chip (SoC) that advances the industry-leading power efficiency of Apple silicon and enables the incredibly thin design of iPad Pro. It also features an entirely new display engine to drive the stunning precision, color, and brightness of the breakthrough Ultra Retina XDR display on iPad Pro. A new CPU has up to 10 cores, while the new 10-core GPU builds on the next-generation GPU architecture introduced in M3, and brings Dynamic Caching, hardware-accelerated ray tracing, and hardware-accelerated mesh shading to iPad for the first time. 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.<\/p>\n

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M4 has a new up-to-10-core CPU consisting of up to four performance cores and now six efficiency cores. The next-generation cores feature improved branch prediction, with wider decode and execution engines for the performance cores, and a deeper execution engine for the efficiency cores. And both types of cores also feature enhanced, next-generation ML accelerators.<\/p>\n

M4 delivers up to 1.5x faster CPU performance over the powerful M2 in the previous iPad Pro.<\/p>\n

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M4 can deliver the same performance as M2 using just half the power. And compared with the latest PC chip in a thin and light laptop, M4 can deliver the same performance using just a fourth of the power.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n