A chiplet-based approach, as we've written, uses multiple silicon dies to make larger chips and can result in better yields since you don't need to throw a whole monolithic 20-core chip out if a couple of cores have defects that keep them from working.
It's possible that Apple is using a chiplet-esque approach to the M1 Ultra, sort of like AMD is doing for many of its Ryzen chips. Advertisementįurther Reading Intel, AMD, and other industry heavyweights create a new standard for chiplets The M1 Ultra is a new design that uses "UltraFusion" technology to strap two M1 Max chips together, resulting in a huge processor that offers 16 high-performance CPU cores, 4 efficiency cores, a 48- or 64-core integrated GPU, and support for up to 128GB of RAM. M1 Ultra: Two M1 Max chips strapped together We have more details on that in a separate post. The Studio is also being introduced alongside a new first-party display from Apple, the 5K $1,599 Studio Display. Both will be available for preorder today and will begin shipping on March 18. The M1 Ultra config starts at $3,999 and comes with 48 GPU cores, 64GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD. The Mac Studio starts at $1,999, which will get you an M1 Max chip with 24 GPU cores, 32GB of memory, and a 512GB SSD.
Those ports allow it to drive up to four of Apple's 6K ProDisplay XDR screens at once, plus a 4K screen using the HDMI port.Īnother nice addition: unlike every other Mac desktop Apple has released in recent history, the Studio offers two easily accessible USB-C ports on the front, plus an SDXC card reader that will be handy for photographers. On the back, you get four Thunderbolt 4 ports, a 10GB Ethernet port, two USB-A ports, HDMI, and a headphone jack.
The more powerful chips allow the Studio to offer a dramatically upgraded array of ports, compared to the M1 Mac mini. The thicker desktop comes in multiple configurations based on Apple's M1 Max and the new M1 Ultra processor, which doubles the CPU and GPU core counts of the M1 Max. The new desktop Mac is called the Mac Studio, and it's like a Mac mini, but bigger-bigger in size and bigger in performance. But what we got is actually a little more than what we expected.
For months, everyone has been speculating that Apple would soon update high-end, Intel-based Mac mini configurations with its own custom-designed silicon, and now Apple has announced just that at its spring product event.