Apple began making its own chips in 2010, starting with the A4 chip, which it used in the first-generation iPad and the iPhone 4. The company increasingly turned to its own semiconductors — a ...

With the A4 chip, Apple launched a chip offensive that paved the way for the Apple Silicon. Head of Hardware Technology Johny ...

Apple explains why the M4 Ultra isn’t available with the new Mac Studio. Still, it doesn’t mean it won’t be released.

Apple's newest powerhouse processor is a cross between an M3 and an M4—and is made for the most demanding users.

Apple has also added a couple of extras, getting the M3 Ultra certified for 120Gbps Thunderbolt 5 (the M3 Max supports Thunderbolt 4) and supporting up to 512GB of RAM (M3 Max tops out at 128GB). And ...

Apple has a considerable amount of experience in chip design, having had a hand in tooling its own processors going back to the Apple A4 in 2010. Since then the iDevice maker has transitioned ...

For all the criticism (mine included) surrounding Apple’s delay of various Apple Intelligence features, I found this different perspective by Ben Thompson fascinating and worth considering: What that ...

Other notes by Chipworks include the ARM cores with ~4.5 Mb of cache memory each, and the A5 being roughly twice the size of the old Apple A4 chip from the iPad 1. Just in case you had any doubts ...