Lone wolf. This is what we can call Apple in the personal computer industry, in the sense that the company has always maintained its OS rather than obtaining a license for Windows as competitors do. With the Apple Silicon series of processors, it moved further away from others by launching laptops and first desktop computers based on processors that it designed itself without requiring any other manufacturer in the processor market.
This silicone shift, so to speak, gives the American company strong control over its fate and perhaps the future of personal computers and the market in general.
Apple's Secret Mix Start
For those who didn't notice, the change was long anticipated. Apple already makes both chips and software that operates its mobile devices. And when I unveiled the first Mac based on the M1 processor, last year, designed by Apple engineers, it became clear that Apple was officially abandoning Intel after years of cooperation.
The idea is that M1 processors are similar to iPhone and iPad processors, allowing mobile applications to run on new computers resulting in improved energy efficiency. About this, Kevin Crewell, lead analyst at Tirias Research, which analyzes and studies the processing sector, says: "Apple was separating itself more from the rest of the personal computer industry, and now the computer is closer to a smartphone."
When Apple first made its own iPhone processors, this helped it innovate, and that's where features like a facial imprint and augmented reality emerged, and the release of the MacBook and Mac Mini chips would make it more creative, and that's what happened!
When the architects of chips, components, and software work together up close and in the same lab, they can perform much stronger, and we've already seen how the MacBook Air can wake up from immediately putting the static on like a smartphone or tablet, and the battery in the MacBook devices, with the M1 slice, is longer-lived and with a single charge, the videos can run for 20. It seems for the first time that Apple's secret mixing will work in the personal computer market.
Point over no rivals!
It should be recalled here that Apple's freedom of design is already affecting other computer manufacturers, just as the iPhone shaped the market for smartphones when smartphones started as smaller, less powerful computer accessories, but through its strategy of manufacturing its chips, Apple is reversing it and blurring the boundaries between a personal computer and a smartphone. That's why competitors who also don't produce industry-leading smartphones may find it difficult to keep up with that race with Apple.
Control of processors is the latest and biggest step in Apple's long-term plan to integrate its vast ecosystem. The company has spent more than a decade building a talent pool of chips and processors at the heart of its laptops since 2010, and in the year before, the company spent $1 billion to acquire the Intel unit that manufactured cell phone services and modems. Now the company designs its chips and also puts them at the heart of its computers.
Invidia, AMD, and Intel have been in a strong race about what's known as multi-die GPUs or multiple graphics processing units, and the theory here is that if you take a strong slice and seamlessly merge it with another slice, you'll end up with something two times better, it's simple when we talk about it, right? But I'd like to tell you that it's not that easy, and while AMD was able to get this concept to work with the MI200 accelerator for advanced supercomputers, no other company had anything to share until the Apple Spring Conference came in, and the scales went off and everything changed in the processor sector.
Start with new Apple processors
Apple thought that it should move on to the next step of making its processors rather than being at the mercy of other companies, and in 2020, it decided to go out of the trial phase and announce its first segment, the M1, which comes with eight anions, four for performance and the other four for efficiency, and the M1 segment works with 5 nm accuracy with 16 billion units of the transistor to deliver very strong performance.
Then last year's Apple 2021 unveiled the M1 Max and M1 Pro slices for computers, both with the same CPU with 10 nuclei. (Eight for performance and two for efficiency) The M1 Pro has a 16-core graphics processor to provide twice as fast performance as the M1 and about seven times faster performance than the latest eight-core graphics processor for the Laptop, while the M1 Max has a 32-core graphics processor to deliver 4 times faster graphics performance than the M1.
During this month's Apple Conference, March 2022, the iPhone maker launched the world's most powerful segment (by Apple's description) when it announced the M1 Ultra, a quality shift in the processor world, as described by Johnny Sruji, vice president of Apple's hardware technology department, as "changing the rules of the game and revolutionizing the computer sector." Let's get to know Apple's new segment that will allow Apple to compete strongly in front of the market's famous processors.
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Both M1 Pro and Max contain 10 nuclei, of which eight are high-performance and two are high-efficiency. This provides strong performance at the mid-class level, but advanced desktop computers from Intel or AMD often contain 16 or more dual nouns, so Apple usually decided to take a step ahead of other companies when it unveiled its new slide.
According to Apple, "the M 1 Ultra segment provides 90% higher performance compared to the fastest desktop processors running with 16 Core, Apple here means Intel's Alder Lake processors, specifically the Generation 12 (Core i 9-12900 K).
Secret technology that Apple is hiding!
There have been rumors circulating for a while about a secret technology that Apple has hidden from everyone's sights and it seems to have been true, revealing the secret component of its new M1 Ultra, Apple-designed packaging technique or structure known as UltraFusion, which allowed it to combine two M1 Max chips to get the new, stronger M1 Ultra chip.
Let's see some details about Apple's UltraFusion technology or structure, which can be briefly described as a revolutionary method devised by Apple based on a silicon interposer card to connect more than one chip by 10,000 signals. What exactly does this mean?
This simply means solving problems that were the result of the previously common method, as companies connect two slides through the motherboard to increase efficiency and raise performance, but this was at the expense of low bandwidth as well as increased energy consumption as well as increased waiting time.
But with UltraFusion, Apple has been able to tackle and even overcome all these problems. With UltraFusion technology everything simply doubles including CPU, GPU, memory capacity, and bandwidth.
Thus, it led to the emergence of experiments and the transition of its silicon chips, making Apple the next powerful black horse in the field of computer processors, and this may have turned into a risk bell for rival chip manufacturers in the market.
Apple's new processor versus Intel, AMD, and Nivedita!
Apple's M1 Ultra specification is as follows:
- 114 billion transistors
- 16 nucleus by
- 4 Efficient Nuclei
- 64-core graphics processor
- Neural engine 32 nuclei
- DDR5 with 128 gigabytes and 800 gigabytes/s
Performance results for the M1 Ultra segment were leaked shortly after Apple announced them during the last spring conference this month, and according to the published results, the M1 Ultra processor is outperforming any other M1 segment such as the M1, M1 Pro, and M1 Max, and the new Apple M1 Ultra processor is operating exclusively on the
According to WCCFTech, the results of the latest tests were for the M1 Ultra slice, as Apple had already claimed, and that its slice appeared to be a harmful monster that could easily swallow other treatments. Tests showed that M1 Ultra received 1793 for monolithic nucleus and 24055 for paleolithic and monolithic tests were performed on macOS 12.3. Of course, all these numbers need other real tests when used on the ground!
Since the M1 Ultra processor contains twice the nuclei, it must manage even the most complex computational tasks. Since the M1 Pro already offers what most Mac users need, this new Apple slide will inevitably open the door to very intense new experiments. After all, the performance and power you can use in 3D design, video, and audio applications can run games and run them smoothly.
This also means that Apple was able to build a 1.9 times stronger 12th-generation segment of the Intel Core i9-12900K processor when both worked at 6000 watts. In other words, you can get more performance for Apple's new segment with less energy consumption.
Of course, this is great for the average user, but for companies that run many sophisticated computers, reducing energy consumption has huge business cost benefits, and when you run an application, you can also process a huge 128 gigabytes of standard memory.
Since professional video studios run a lot of MAC devices that perform intensive calculations, this results in a large budget-saving and a much faster performance and gives the impression that investing in these devices is the right thing to do.
Moreover, India's giant RTX 3090 graphics card is the fastest graphics processing unit on the market right now, and Apple wanted to outperform Invidia in its home estate, which is why the US company claimed that its new M1 Ultra could compete and even beat the stronger Anvidia with 200 watts less power.
Apple made similar claims about its M1 Max winning the RTX 3080 last year, but the results were mixed. For productivity-focused tasks, the M1Max performed very well against the RTX 3080. However, some reviewers found the M1Max to be a little slower than the RTX 3080 while doing tasks on the Adobe Premiere Pro, but the performance of the M1 Max was generally amazing, and now we have an arc.
Apple supported its new Mac Studio with its M1 Ultra chip, which is a desktop not much larger than the Nvidia RTX 3090, and so the iPhone maker has an incredibly powerful device thanks to the M1 Ultra. Apple designed it to replace the 27-inch iMac and even some dishes.
It's not that simple!
And yet there's a problem with Apple, and the company always focuses on the performance and capability of its processors when it comes to applications, productivity, not gaming, and that's why the M1 Max and Pro chips suffered in-game ratings, and their performance was similar to that of the Nvidia RTX 3060 processor.
But what about AMD Rhyzen Threadripper 3990X, can Apple's M1 Ultra outperform it?
According to the tests, the AMD processor, operating through 32 nuclei, was able to gain 25,697 points in the multiple-onion performance, of course, this leaves the Ultra segment of Apple slightly behind by 1642 points. However, in single-core performance, the new Apple segment outperformed the 32-core AMD processor with 1793 points while the latter only garnered 1294 points.
Finally, you should be aware that computing and computer manufacturing face an unknown future, where chips progress more slowly and the traditional strategy of making more powerful slides is maintained by making smaller transistors more difficult because the devices are already measured in nanometers, but Apple relies on smaller and better technologies to manufacture chips and this provides performance and money gains because smaller processors are more cost-efficient.
Apple is also able to extract more performance from its chips by tightly integrating them with its operating system and adding special features such as its neural engine, which allows Apple to be much freer to design than Intel, so could Apple be the black horse that comes in strongly and dominates the processor sector?
Actually, I don't know, but according to history, when Apple enters into a field even if it's new, it's controlled and topped, so we'll wait this year to see the power of its processors, and will it show up new slices and how chips companies will handle the iPhone maker?
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