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M4 Ultra: Everything we know about Apple’s mysterious Hidra chip
- Apple is reportedly working on a new high-performance chip called “Hidra” that will appear in its Mac Studio and Mac Pro devices as the M4 Ultra.
- Hidra is being touted as a potential major step up over the previous M2 Ultra.
- Mark Gurman, Bloomberg reporter, believes the new Mac Studio will launch in the first half of 2025, whilst the Mac Pro is expected to launch during the second half of the year.
- If rumors are to be believed, the M4 Ultra chip will boast up to 32-core CPU and up to 80-core GPU which would be a significant improvement over Apple’s previous chips.
- Apple could potentially use WWDC to tease the Hidra chip and launch it later in the year, interest in the event making for the perfect stage/occasion.
- The M4 Ultra will almost certainly come to the Mac Studio and the Mac Pro, but reports suggest that Apple has ceased work on its Extreme chip due to complications in the manufacturing process.
- Mark Gurman believes that the M4 Extreme was too expensive to manufacture and would make the Mac Pro far too niche to be worth Apple’s time.
- Given the lack of rumors circling ahead of updates to the Mac Studio and Mac Pro, speculation surrounding the arrival of Apple's M4 Extreme seems unlikely.
- We should therefore expect to see the Hidra chip in the form of the M4 Ultra.
- The M4 Ultra will almost certainly have a significant impact and provide an enhancement in specs and performance on previous Apple chips.
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