Author 丨 Ni Yuqing
Editor 丨 Zhang Weixian
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In the early morning of March 9, at Apple's spring 2022 conference, the chip became the protagonist again. While not as expected as the M2, Apple introduced the M1 Ultra, which is used in the latest version of the Mac Studio desktop computer console.
In addition, Apple also released a new iPhone SE equipped with A15 chips, which is currently the cheapest 5G iPhone. At the same time, Apple released the new color of the iPhone 13 series, "Cangling Green", the new iPad Air equipped with M1 chip, and the monitor Studio Display equipped with A13 chip.
M1 Ultra chip: Integrates two M1 Max chips
According to Apple, the M1 Ultra chip has 114 billion transistors, uses a 5nm process, has a 20-core CPU, a maximum of 64-core graphics processor, and a maximum of 128G of unified memory. Based on cpu and GPU improvements, it can perform up to 22 trillion operations per second, supporting up to 18 8K ProRes video streams to be played simultaneously.
In terms of CPU performance, the data displayed by Apple shows that the M1 Ultra is 90% higher than the performance of the friendly business under the same power, the GPU speed is higher than the high-end GPU of the friendly business, and the power consumption is reduced by 200 watts.
It is worth noting that the M1 Ultra has innovated at the package level, and it is reported that Apple uses the die-to-die connector hidden in the M1 Max to integrate the two M1 Maxes.
The M1 Ultra will be the first to be installed on the Mac Studio desktop computer host, which also means that Apple has gone further on the chip in the PC field, improving performance through the chip, and also accelerating the transfer from x86 architecture chips to the ARM architecture M1 series.
In terms of price, Mac Studio has two versions of M1 Max and M1 Ultra, the M1 Max version starts at 14999 yuan, the price of the M1 Ultra version starts from 29999 yuan, and the top match reaches 59999 yuan. This product line is also mainly aimed at professionals, providing them with more powerful productivity in video production, creative design and so on.
In addition, if the Mac Studio plus the Studio Display equipped with A13 chips can be called Apple's desktop PC performance monster, the latest 27-inch Studio Display starts at 11499 yuan.
Regular iPhone updates, iPad Air chip upgrades
Compared to the M1 Ultra and Mac Studio, the iPhone release is quite ordinary, and it is a regular update.
Specifically, the new version of the iPhone SE still uses a 4.7-inch body and fingerprint recognition, and there are not many changes in the design, but it is equipped with an A15 chip, the same as the iPhone 13 series, and for the first time supports 5G networks, with a built-in Snapdragon X60 5G baseband. The price has increased, 64GB version 3499 yuan, 128GB version 3899 yuan, 256GB version 4699 yuan.
As an affordable version of the small iPhone, the iPhone SE has many users around the world, but it faces fierce competition in the Chinese market. With the high-end upgrade of domestic mobile phones, Android phones and iPhone SE in the 3000 price range have their own advantages.
Look at the new color of the iPhone 13 series, iPhone 13 mini, iPhone 13 is the green version, iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 13 Pro Max is Green. The price is exactly the same as other color matching, starting at 5199 yuan, 5999 yuan, 7999 yuan and 8999 yuan respectively.
In addition to the iPhone, the iPad Air has also been iterated, with a screen size of 10.9 inches and a full screen of Liquid Retina; the camera uses a 12-megapixel ultra-wide-angle front camera with its own character centering function; in terms of communications, it has also been upgraded to a 5G network for the first time; the price starts from 4399 yuan.
The highlight of the iPad Air is mainly the introduction of the M1 chip, Apple said, the use of 8-core CPU, the performance of up to 60% faster than the previous generation, 8-core image processor up to 2 times faster, 16-core neural network engine to improve machine learning capabilities, improve the ability to retouch. It can be seen that the M1 chip is accelerating into Apple's various product lines, and Apple predicts that the Mac Pro series equipped with M1 series chips will be introduced at the subsequent conference.
Editor of this issue Liu Xueying Intern Lin Xiying