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knew what it was doing when it led the 2024 iPad Pro’s announcement by saying that the . They were skipping a grade by blazing past M3 to introduce the new chipset via this year's pro-grade tablets. Sure, this info nugget the new tablets were officially released, but it was also shrugged off as a wild rumour. We now know that it’s real, and not as wild as previously assumed. Here’s the down-low about what the M4 Apple Silicon offers. A new generation of chipsets typically begets performance gains, but gains are nothing if they aren’t implemented with practicality in mind. M4 uses a second-generation manufacturing technology, which favours power efficiency. This means the same performance from an older chip would demand less battery power with the M4. Compared to the M2 chipset, Apple said the M4 grants faster CPU performance, faster pro-rendering performance for its GPU, and delivers the same M2 performance with . M4’s CPU layout sees 10 cores: four performance cores (for demanding workloads) and six efficiency cores. All the cores are also accelerated with machine learning to milk more performance.  The GPU component also has 10 cores, but is new. It effectively allocates hardware memory in real time, increasing the average GPU utilization. This means the graphics processor is better utilised in graphically demanding apps, like games and pro editing tools. The GPU also gets for more realistic rendering of in-game shadows and reflections. The Neural Engine (Apple’s nomenclature for its neural processing unit that handles AI workloads) on the M4 can go up to . For context, that’s 60x faster than Apple’s A11 Bionic ( and was already ahead of its time).  Perhaps it’s odd that Apple made the M4 comparison to a relatively old chipset, but we believe it’s a deliberate attempt to showcase Apple’s approach to AI long before the AI bandwagon. The Media Engine (codec processing unit) on M4 introduces for the first time. Of course, much of the processing power enables some new features on the new iPad Pro, which you can read more . Source: