Apple held the WWDC Global Developers Conference in the early morning of Hong Kong time today (June 6th), and announced at the meeting that the new generation of Mac Pro will use its own developed M2 Ultra chip, which means that Apple’s entire line of products have been replaced with self-developed chips , there are no longer products using Intel chips. Affected by the bad news, Intel’s stock price closed down nearly 4%.
▲Mac Pro using M2 Ultra chip
Early this morning, Apple announced the launch of the M2 Ultra chip, claiming that the overall performance of the Mac Pro using the M2 Ultra chip is 300% higher than that of the Mac Pro using the Intel chip. Apple even called the M2 UItra a “monster chip” at WWDC to show how powerful it is. The new Mac Pro with the M2 Ultra chip starts at US$6,999 (about HK$54,889)
Apple released the first self-developed chip M1 in 2020, and then started the road of independent research and development. Gregory Bryant, a former executive at Intel in 2021, also said that Apple is not a traditional computer chip competitor. Gregory Bryant believes that Apple is not just releasing a CPU, but to integrate the developer ecosystem so that the iPad and iPhone can also be integrated into the entire ecosystem.
Source: cnBeta