Jiwei network news, March 9, 2:00 a.m. Beijing time, Apple's spring conference officially began, in addition to everyone's long-awaited iPhone SE3, Apple also brought you a new color iPhone 13, as well as the new iPad Air, Mac Studio equipped with M1 Max chip and Mac Studio (M1 Ultra chip).
Old bottle of new wine, what is the value of the iPhone SE?
Specifically, the latest iPhone SE has the same design as the previous generation, 4.7-inch LCD screen, bangs screen, 1334 x 750 pixel resolution, 326 ppi, 1400:1 contrast ratio, support for original color display, DCI-P3 color gamut, using aviation-grade aluminum metal with glass, water and dust resistance to IP67, and also equipped with Home button and Touch ID function.
Although the appearance does not look changed, its front and rear glass is practical and the iPhone 13 series of super-porcelain crystal glass, compared with the previous generation in durability to further improve, the weight of the whole machine is 144g, compared with the previous generation is also 4g lighter.
In terms of configuration, the third-generation iPhone SE is equipped with an A15 processor, new 5G support, equipped with a 12-megapixel /1.8 aperture wide-angle camera, allowing users to enjoy intelligent HDR 4, photography style, deep integration, portrait mode and other computational photography functions. Integrating up to 15 billion transistors, it has greatly improved in computing, graphics, AI machine learning, etc., and is currently the strongest chip in the mobile phone industry, claiming to be 26 times faster than the iPhone 8.
The processor unsurprisingly uses the same A15 bionic chip as the iPhone 13 series, although it is the old tradition of the SE series, but considering that the A15 chip is still hanging all the Android camp chips, the feeling of surprise is still rippling.
The A15 bionic chip on the new iPhone SE has 6 CPU cores, 4 GPU cores and 16 neural engine cores, returning to the first echelon of iPhone hash rate.
In terms of charging power, the iPhone SE, like the previous generation, supports up to 20W wired fast charging and Qi wireless charging, but unfortunately the rumored MagSafe magnetic charging did not appear.
However, there should not be too many expectations on the battery life, the official did not announce the actual battery capacity, superimposed support for 5G network and A15 high energy consumption, the battery life of the new aircraft will continue to drag as always. Moreover, SE has not changed its taste in six years since its birth. In the matter of fried cold rice, Apple can be said to be the existence of the industry ceiling level. It is hard to imagine, if it is not Apple, for any other manufacturer, the same practice will be what will happen.
The iPhone SE 3 new case color choices include midnight color, starlight and red. The official retail price is $429 and is expected to go on sale on March 18.
"Fly Green" iPhone 13
In addition to the above-mentioned new hardware products, Apple also launched a new color of the iPhone 13 series - Cangling green.
The new Green iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max feature multi-layer nanoscale cermet to create the entire body surface, with a surgical-grade stainless steel bezel and a matte textured glass backplane. Featuring a delicate tonal aluminum-tonal bezel and precision-polished glass back panel, the iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 mini are available in 6.1- and 5.4-inch sizes with vibrant, ultra-retina XDR displays. The full range of products are equipped with iPhone's unique super-porcelain crystal panel, hardness exceeds glass panel, water resistance, dust resistance reached the industry's leading IP68 level.
According to reports, Cangling Green iPhone 13 Pro and Green iPhone 13 are equipped with iOS 15.4, which supports the use of Face ID to unlock when wearing masks, has a new Siri sound to choose from, and also adds new emojis.
Apple's treatment of the iPhone 13 & 13 mini is perfunctory, just a simple "green" indication, but in fact, it is not much different from "Cangling Green", the main difference is brought about by stainless steel and aluminum alloy, frosted glass and glossy glass These material processes are different.
Benchmark pro iPad Air5
Perhaps to differentiate itself from the nearly identical iPad Air Fourth Generation, the all-new iPad Air has introduced five new color palettes, namely Space Gray, Starlight, Pink, Purple, and Blue, which is close to the 13 Pro's Far Peak Blue.
According to the press conference, the iPad Air 5 uses an M1 chip, supports 5G connectivity, and has a series of color fuselage options. The iPad Air 5 features an Apple Silicon M1 chip that includes the same CPU, GPU, and neural engine cores as the iPad Pro model. The addition of 5G functions is also the focus of the new iPad Air upgrade, and the current iPad family has been upgraded to the 5G network in addition to the basic iPad.
In terms of photography, the iPad Air 5's 12-megapixel ultra-wide-angle front camera supports character centering, which can automatically track when the user moves, so that the user is always in the picture. In addition, the iPad Air 5's 12-megapixel ultra-wide-angle rear camera allows users to take crisp photos and 4K video, scan documents, and enjoy a great augmented reality (AR) experience.
Compared with the A14 chip used in the previous generation of Air, the M1 with 8-core CPU and 8-core GPU can provide 80% cpu power improvement and 2x graphics performance improvement, which is a veritable "Pro" performance.
As a mainstream product, the newly released device is faster than its fastest competitors, claiming to be 1 times faster than the Windows laptop at the same price point, but unfortunately the official did not provide specific details. The fifth-generation iPad Air now includes an upgraded 12-megapixel ultra-wide front camera with support for Apple's Center Stage, and it also includes support for the second-generation Apple Pencil. The device also uses a large amount of 100% recycled material, including rare earth magnets.
Meanwhile, the 2022 iPad Air is still compatible with the Magic Keyboard, Smart Keyboard, and 2nd Generation Stylus. In addition to the specification updates, the overall design of the new iPad Air is the same as that of the previous generation. The iPad Air also retains the LCD liquid retina display without a mini LED backlight. In terms of color matching, the 2022 iPad Air offers space gray, starlight, pink, purple, and a new blue option that makes you shine.
In addition to wireless transmission, USB-C wired transmission speed has also been increased to 10Gbps, which is 2 times higher than the previous generation, which can better meet the needs of users to import large pictures and videos with M1 chip editing.
In terms of version and price, the iPad Air 5 64GB wireless LAN model is priced at 4399 yuan, and the cellular network model is priced at 5499 yuan; the iPad Air 5 256GB wireless LAN model is priced at 5499 yuan, and the cellular network model is priced at 6599 yuan. Like the iPhone SE 3, the chip will be available for order on March 11 and released on March 18.
The most eye-catching Mac Studio and M1 Ultra
According to the press conference, in terms of appearance, Mac Studio is a desktop that looks like a Mac Mini. In simple terms, mac studio looks like a heightened version of the Mac Mini, which is equivalent to two Mac minis stacked on top of each other. The Mac Studio can either use Apple's M1 Max chip or the newly released, more powerful processor, the M1 Ultra.
In terms of interfaces, the front USB-C slot (M1 Ultra supports Thunderbolt) and SD card slots, the back has 4 Thunderbolt (or USB-C) ports, two USB Type-A, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, HDMI, headphone jacks, and power keys, a total of 6 Thunderbolt 4 interfaces (M1 Max has two front USB-C ports, and M1 Ultra has two TB4 ports on the front). The bottom side is 7.7 inches (about 19.6 centimeters) long, and two fans draw air from the bottom and drain through 2,000 perforations on the back.
Although the Mac Studio uses the M1 Max/M1 Ultra chip, the size of the fuselage is only vertically increased, simply put, the Mac mini plays "Stacking Music". Even so, it's still smaller than most PC hosts, and several orders of magnitude smaller than the Mac Pro.
According to apple data, in the typical graphics processing software Adobe Photoshop, the top Mac Studio is 2.5 times faster than the Core Deca-core i9 on the 27-inch iMac.
In the Final Cut Pro, which reflects the graphics processing power, the 8K rendering speed of the top Mac Studio is 5 times that of the 27-inch iMac, which is equipped with the AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT graphics card, which can also be the flagship graphics card in the same year.
At the same time, Apple also released the M1 Ultra, which has 800 Gbps of memory bandwidth and supports up to 128GB of unified memory. It has a 20-core CPU with 16 high-performance cores and a 64-core GPU. Apple says it offers up to 8x more performance than the M1-generation Mac Mini.
When we thought that the M1 Max launched last year was already the strongest chip in the M1 family, Apple sacrificed a new "king fried", M1 Ultra. The naming is extreme, but its birth is not complicated to say. Tim Millet, Apple's chip architect and vice president, explained that thanks to Apple Silicon's excellent unified memory architecture, the chip and chip have good connectivity.
The M1 Ultra launched this time is made up of two M1 Max connected together through a custom package architecture, and the performance is more extreme (Ultra).
PU performance is 50% ahead of the 16-core Intel Xeon chip, and GPU performance is 3.4 times that of the AMD Radeon Pro W5700X solo display on the 27-inch iMac, and 80% ahead of the Radeon Pro W6900X. Apple also made its own product comparison, M1 Ultra is 60% faster than the 28-core Mac Pro Pro, can easily drive 18 channels of 8K ProRes 422 video, and the fuselage can be installed with up to 8TB SSD.
"The M1 Ultra is another disruptive product in Apple's chip that will once again shock the pc industry. By using the UltraFusion package architecture to connect the dies of two M1 Max chips, we were able to push Apple chips to new heights like never before," said Johny Srouji, senior vice president of hardware technology at Apple, "with a powerful CPU, high-spec graphics processor, unparalleled neural network engine, ProRes hardware acceleration technology and large capacity of unified memory, M1 Ultra." Add another Mac chip with the world's strongest performance and strength to the M1 series chip lineup. ”
This solution eliminates the performance and energy efficiency losses previously associated through the motherboard, enabling low-latency processor interconnect bandwidth of up to 2.5TB/s.
Most importantly, the software does not simply and rudely identify M1 Ultra as two M1 Max blocks, and then frequently report errors, but accurately identifies it as M1 Ultra, eliminating the possibility of developers rewriting code, and powerful performance can be called directly.
Once "spliced", the strongest M1 member to date was born.
Although many new products have been released, there are not many brilliant ones, and for ordinary users, there are very few that can really stimulate. So much so that Apple's stock price fell rapidly after the press conference, and as of Tuesday's close, Apple's stock price fell more than 1% to $157.44, with a market value of $256.9 billion. Apple shares have started at $118.86 and as high as $182.94 over the past 52 weeks. In addition, although the after-hours stock price fell for a while, it eventually turned red.
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