The move to Apple’s CPUs is almost complete. The Mac Studio and its M1 Ultra CPU, the company’s most powerful piece of silicon to date, were unveiled during the company’s recent spring event. But it also hinted at what Apple’s laptops may look like in the future.
The first and most important point is that Apple is now (if it wasn’t before) a chip-making powerhouse to be reckoned with. The company’s credentials were established by the overwhelmingly enthusiastic response to the first wave of M1 computers, as well as the comparable success of its M1 Pro and M1 Max-powered MacBook Pro laptops last year. But with the M1 Ultra, Apple made its largest move yet, claiming to have the most powerful CPU for a PC.
M1 Ultra Is The World’s Most Powerful Processor
These chips are already gaining popularity as computer selling features. Buying a Mac is no longer only about acquiring Apple’s software or aesthetic design; it’s also about getting performance and battery life that no one else can match.
Apple fired shots at Intel’s top-tier CPU, the Core i9-12900K, claiming a 90 percent increase in multi-threaded efficiency at the same power level over its M1 Ultra, as well as the ability to match Intel’s greatest stats while using 100W less power. Apple performed a similar victory lap over Nvidia’s RTX 3090 GPU, which it says outperforms while requiring 200W less power. The Apple Silicon transition is no longer an experiment; it is Apple’s future, and it is something that PC makers will have to consider in the future.
Apple’s Arm-based M1 processors come in four distinct models, blurring the barrier between product form factors in a way that we don’t generally see from semiconductors. Apple has taken a different approach: instead of designing semiconductors for individual devices, the company has created just one excellent chip: the A-series CPU. And all it’s done is keep scaling it up, seemingly indefinitely.