Apple’s 2023 WWDC unveils new Mac Pro with M2 Ultra chip, completes chip transfer plan

2023-06-06 00:40:21

Apple’s 2023 WWDC Worldwide Developers Conference officially debuted. On Monday (5th), Apple launched a new version of the “super-top computer” Mac Pro, and adopted its own chip M2 Ultra. This move shows that Apple has completed the chip transfer plan.

After the first Apple Silicon Apple Mac came out in 2020, after three years, the Apple Mac product line has completely replaced Intel processors.

Apple unveiled a new Mac Pro computer at its Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, powered by the M2 Ultra chip, after the previous generation of the ‌Mac Pro‌ was the last Mac still using older Intel chip technology. With the launch of the new Mac Pro with the ‌M2‌ Ultra, the Mac Pro with Intel processors has been discontinued.

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Apple on Monday (5th) launched the new Mac Pro computer, using the M2 Ultra chip (Photo: Apple’s official website)

Compared with previous models equipped with Intel processors, Apple claims that the M2‌ Ultra chip has great performance advantages. It claims to be the most powerful and powerful chip in Apple’s history, and it is now standard in every Mac Pro configuration.

M2‌ Ultra is a combination of two M2 Max with UltraFusion architecture, up to 24-core CPU, 76-core GPU, 32-core neural engine, 30% faster than M1 Ultra. Using a 5nm process; it doubles the memory bandwidth of the M2 Max, with a unified memory bandwidth of 800 GB per second, supporting 50% more memory than the M1 Ultra. 20% faster CPU and 30% faster GPU than M1 Ultra

According to Apple Taiwan’s official website, the new version of the Mac Pro offers tower and rack mounts. The price of Mac Pro (tower) starts at 229,900 yuan, and the price of Mac Pro (rack) starts at 244,900 yuan. The release date is currently undecided.

In addition to pressure from Apple, Intel is also facing pressure from AMD (AMD-US) and growing competition from Nvidia. Intel shares fell 4.6% on Monday to close at $29.86 per share. apple (AAPL-US) fell 0.76% to $179.58 per share, falling below the $180 mark.

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