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 The iPad Pro and iPad Air models that Apple introduced today continue to offer the same 10 hours of battery life that Apple has advertised with iPads for years now, despite the addition of new, more efficient chips.
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 There are two notable design changes for the new iPad Pro models introduced today: they are the thinnest Apple products ever released, and they are available in a new Space Black finish that debuted on the MacBook Pro last year.
— Brian Tong (@briantong) May 7, 2024 |
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Weirdly, Apple launched the new M4 chip inside the Apple iPad Pro, which will cost anywhere from $999 to a whopping $1,499. We assume that it will appear in an even more expensive Mac a bit later.
Macworld has a deep dive on the new Apple M4, which includes four performance cores, six efficiency cores and a 10-core GPU. (The GPU is the same as the existing M3.) In addition, there's a new Neural Engine, the Apple NPU which executives say delivers 38 trillion operations per second (TOPS) from 16 cores.
As you may be aware, AI is hot right now. And chip manufacturers have been feverishly measuring their AI TOPS performance compared to one another. Tim Millet, Apple vice president of platform architecture, claimed Tuesday that the M4 is "more powerful than any neural processing unit in any PC today."
And that's true. For right now.
Unfortunately, Qualcomm executives are already on record claiming that their Snapdragon X Elite's NPU delivers 45 TOPS. And while PCs with the Snapdragon X Elite inside them have yet to ship, they're expected to be announced in as little as two weeks, in a launch event on May 20. There, Microsoft is expected to show off the Microsoft Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 with Snapdragon X Elite chips inside them. Asus, mean
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The M4 is made on an enhanced 3nm process and contains over 28 billion transistors and has the following advanced features in the iPad Pro:
Up to 4 high-performance CPU cores with improved branch prediction and wider decode and execution engines.
6 high-efficiency CPU cores with improved branch prediction and a deeper execution engine.
10-core GPU built on the same architecture as M3, with dynamic caching, mesh shaders, and ray tracing acceleration.
16-core Neural Engine delivering over 38 trillion operations per second.
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