GoKawiilApple unveils 2nm M6 chip and quad-die M5 Ultra for new Mac mini and Mac Studio
Apple has launched M6, its first chip built on a 2-nanometer process, inside a refreshed Mac mini, featuring a 12-core CPU, 12-core GPU and a Dual 16-core Neural Engine. Alongside it, the new Mac Studio gets M5 Ultra, Apple's first quad-die SoC, offering up to 36 CPU cores, 80 GPU cores and 1.2TB/s of memory bandwidth.
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This marks Apple's push into leading-edge 2nm manufacturing while simultaneously scaling its Ultra chips to a new quad-die design, signaling an aggressive strategy to compete on both efficiency and raw AI compute power. The added Neural Accelerators and bandwidth suggest Apple is positioning its desktop lineup to handle increasingly large local AI models without relying on cloud processing.
- M6 is Apple's first chip built on a 2nm process, found in the new Mac mini.
- M5 Ultra debuts a quad-die architecture, Apple's most powerful chip yet, in the new Mac Studio.
- Both chips boost Neural Engine and GPU capabilities, emphasizing on-device AI performance.
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