At its recent event, Apple unveiled it’s new line of Mac devices powered by the new line of M3 processors. However, if you are a power user and you love extracting every ounce of power, there may be some good news on the horizon. If reports are to be believed, Apple may be preparing to launch a more ‘Pro’ version of their M3 Chipset for it’s Mac lineup.
Popular journalist Mark Gurman put out a piece in which he confidently claimed that Apple is indeed working on an M3 ‘Ultra chipset, that will change the meaning of PC computing forever, blowing away everything that stands in its way. Now, this claim is not too far fetched as the M3 chipset did throw the hammer down on its competition, and it is very likely that they have the know-how on making something even more powerful and potent.
If history is any indicator, Apple has had four tiers of their Apple custom silicon – The base variant, the Pro variant, the Max variant, and then the Ultra variant. Now, to highlight how crazy Ultra is, well, if you think the Max variant of Apple silicon is crazy powerful, add double the number of CPU and GPU cores and you get the Ultra variant.
Obviously, with this kind of power under the hood, it is likely that the M3 Ultra will only feature in the top end Mac models such as the Mac Studio and Mac Pro. With the cheapest of these power performances costing $3,999, it is not going to be aimed at the general user, which fair, considering the average user probably doesn’t need this level of computing power.
As far as the availability is concerned, Gurman believes that the M3 Ultra chip will be released in 2024, most probably at an Apple event. Apple is not one to have individual release event for every product. If we were to guess, they may either announce it at WWDC, or the Mac release event.
Stay tuned to this space for more updates on this.
