SAN FRANCISCO, March 8 (Xinhua) -- Apple on Thursday announced the M1 Ultra chip which features UltraFusion, an Apple's innovative packaging architecture that interconnects the die of two M1 Max chips to create a system on a chip (SoC).
The new SoC consists of 114 billion transistors, the most ever in a personal computer chip. M1 Ultra can be configured with up to 128GB of high-bandwidth, low-latency unified memory that can be accessed by the 20-core CPU, 64-core GPU, and 32-core Neural Engine, the announcement said.
The 32-core Neural Engine in M1 Ultra runs up to 22 trillion operations per second, speeding through the most challenging machine learning tasks. The new Mac Studio with M1 Ultra can play back up to 18 streams of 8K ProRes 422 video, according to the announcement.
"M1 Ultra is another game-changer for Apple silicon that once again will shock the PC industry. By connecting two M1 Max die with our UltraFusion packaging architecture, we're able to scale Apple silicon to unprecedented new heights," said Johny Srouji, Apple's senior vice president of Hardware Technologies. ■