Apple's new chips double down on local AI processing for Macs
Apple introduced the M5 Ultra and M6 chips for its new Mac Mini and Mac Studio. The M5 Ultra combines two M5 Max dies into a quad-die design with up to 36 CPU cores and 80 GPU cores, while the M6 uses a 2nm process with a 12-core CPU and dual 16-core Neural Engine. Both chips emphasize on-device AI performance, with the M6 offering nearly 30% faster peak GPU compute for AI than the M5.
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