At today’s iPad-focused event, Apple unveiled the brand new M4 chip, which is powering the new iPad Pro, just as a rumor from last week anticipated. The M4 comes with Apple’s fastest Neural Engine ever, capable of up to 38 trillion operations per second, which Apple says is “faster than the neural processing unit of any AI PC today”, whatever that means.
The point, of course, is that the M4 “makes the new iPad Pro an outrageously powerful device for artificial intelligence”, since 2024 has long been rumored to be the year when Apple finally enters AI Buzzwordland.
The M4 has up to…