When Apple unveiled the M5 Ultra chip in August, many expected reduced lead times for the Mac Studio, premised on the belief that the supply chain-savvy tech behemoth would manage to produce the compute platform in sufficient quantities to meet the oncoming demand. That was not to be, however, as the latest snapshot shows those lead times extending into the new year. Apple's M5 Ultra Mac Studio is currently witnessing lead times of 16 to 18 weeks Back in April, Apple pulled the base variant of the Mac mini, which sported the M4 chip, 16GB RAM, 256GB of storage, and a […]

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The workstation class of processors has crowned a new champion in the form of Apple’s M5 Ultra, the company’s fastest SoC that just dethroned AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9995WX in Geekbench 7. Despite battling against a 96-core and 192-thread configuration, along with boost clock speeds that go up to 5.40GHz, the Apple Silicon powerhouse still manages to outperform it in both single-threaded and multi-threaded workloads. Single-core territory continues to belong to Apple Silicon, as the M5 Ultra is almost 50 percent faster than the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9995WX A few days after the A20 Pro managed to set a new record in […]

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Apple have impressed everyone with the performance of their M-series of CPUs after dumping Intel for their own internal design in 2020.  They've pretty much been on a yearly cadence since then,…

Apple is planning to skip the M6 Ultra launch, instead choosing to launch the M5 Ultra later this year, followed by the M7 Ultra after it unveils the M7 Pro and M7 Max sometime in 2027. Fortunately, the new workstation-class silicon will be worth the wait, especially for those who aspire to run multi-billion-parameter AI models on their systems but are limited by memory constraints. This is because a new report states that the M7 Ultra will feature double the unified memory of the M5 Ultra, and you’ll want to know how much RAM you can pack for the top-end […]

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The M5 family is missing one member that’ll eventually power the updated Mac Studio’s innards, and that’s the M5 Ultra. With the launch expected later this year, Apple will finally bring its most powerful workstation-class silicon to the masses, and even though it won’t be cheap, we’re looking forward to its release. Unfortunately, as far as design changes go, the new Mac Studio will look similar to its predecessors, but Apple won’t keep this trend going with the M7 Ultra, as the latter’s higher power requirements will necessitate a major change. Internal upgrades, such as a bigger heatsink is expected […]

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In the AI race, there’s no question that Apple is trailing behind its rivals, despite the fact that it has been enjoying the past few quarters thanks to its hardware sales going through the roof. Fortunately, WWDC 2026 could put an end to all the doubters who have concluded that the technology giant isn’t serious about this category. While the keynote has exclusively been focused on software, a report states that the M5 Ultra could make a surprise appearance as part of the company’s push to display the capabilities of its most powerful SoC, including running several billion-parameter AI models […]

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The increased high-bandwidth memory requirement of Large Language Models is why Apple and its Mac Studio lineup have gained significant traction while also targeting the workstation market, where consumers demanded the absolute best in raw compute and graphics performance, but in a package that wouldn’t take up any room. Unfortunately, a decent chunk of revenue will be lost as Apple attempts to steer past the DRAM shortage, with a new report stating that the refreshed Mac Studio isn’t going to launch as early as expected. With older M3 Ultra and M4 Max options belonging to the Mac Studio unavailable, the […]

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The Fusion Architecture that Apple introduced with the M5 Pro and M5 Max allowed the company to scale the limitations of chipset development, packing in more CPU cores operating at higher clock speeds while maintaining impressive efficiency. This leaves only the M5 Ultra to be announced, but unlike the other SoCs, there are few details surrounding its architecture. Fortunately, a series of logical explanations indicate why Apple will bring its UltraFusion process to this silicon, just like it has with the M3 Ultra. However, this approach also means that we’ll witness the pairing of both Fusion Architecture and UltraFusion to form […]

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