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Apple's M1 Max SoC Allegedly Makes Shaky Geekbench Debut

Just hours after Apple announced its new MacBook Pros featuring M1 Pro and M1 Max CPUs, the first benchmarks showed up online this afternoon. As is typically the case for unreleased products, the benchmarks appeared in the Geekbench database . According to the result, this is a 10-core M1X Pro with 32GB of on-package memory.

The M1 Max managed to post a single-core score of 1,749 and a multi-core score of 11,5

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Apple M1 Pro and M1 Max: Specs, Performance, Everything We Know

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Apple is continuing it's crusade to banish Intel from its lineup with two more processors: the M1 Pro and M1 Max, professional-grade processors debuting in the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros .

Here's everything you need to know about the M1 Pro and M1 Max in one spot. We also have a separate article on the original M1 .

Apple M1 Pro and M1 Max Specifications

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Apple's new M1 Pro and M1 Max are its most powerful chips to date

Bottom line: The new MacBook Pro was the starring attraction of Apple’s fall event. At the heart of the new line are the M1 Pro and M1 Max, the most powerful chips Apple has ever produced. If Intel wants to win back Apple's business, it's certainly got its work cut out for it.

The new M1 Pro is built using 5-nanometer process technology and feature 33.7 billion transistors, or more than twice the number that shipped in the original

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Apple announces new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros with M1 Pro and M1 Max chipsets, Mini LED displays, and more

In brief: The new MacBook Pros feature the fastest silicon to come out of Cupertino, higher resolution Retina XDR displays, and a wider selection of ports as well as a MagSafe 3 power connector. Instead of a Touch Bar, they come with a row of Function keys. The displays are larger and support higher resolutions and a 120 Hz refresh rate, but they also come with an iPhone

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Apple doubles down on chip strategy with new premium-priced MacBooks - Reuters

Oct 18 (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) on Monday announced two new MacBook Pro models that run on more powerful in-house chips, furthering its break from previous supplier Intel Corp (INTC.O) and showing its strategy for setting its machines apart from the rest of the PC industry.

The new 14-inch and 16-inch models start at $1,999 and range up to $6,099 in their most expensive variations. Using two

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Apple Announces M1 Pro & M1 Max: Giant New Arm SoCs with All-Out Performance

Today’s Apple Mac keynote has been very eventful, with the company announcing a new line-up of MacBook Pro devices, powered by two different new SoCs in Apple’s Silicon line-up: the new M1 Pro and the M1 Max.

The M1 Pro and Max both follow-up on last year’s M1, Apple’s first generation Mac silicon that ushered in the beginning of Apple’s journey to replace x86 based chips with their own in-house designs

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(PR) Apple Introduces M1 Pro and M1 Max: the Most Powerful Chips Apple Has Ever Built

Apple today announced M1 Pro and M1 Max, the next breakthrough chips for the Mac. Scaling up M1's transformational architecture, M1 Pro offers amazing performance with industry-leading power efficiency, while M1 Max takes these capabilities to new heights. The CPU in M1 Pro and M1 Max delivers up to 70 percent faster CPU performance than M1, so tasks like compiling projects in Xcode are faster than ever. The GPU in M1 Pro is up to 2x faster than

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Apple Announces The M1 Pro / M1 Max, Asahi Linux Starts Eyeing Their Bring-Up

Apple today announced the M1 Pro and M1 Max as their most powerful SoCs ever built by the company. The new chips feature up to a 10-core processor, 32-core GPU, and up to 64GB of unified memory.

While the Apple M1 was already well regarded for its speed, the M1 Pro and M1 Max are said to deliver up to 70% faster CPU performance than last year's M1. Meanwhile the GPU within the M1 Pro
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Gelsinger: Intel wants to get Apple's business back by outcompeting it

In brief: The Pat Gelsinger-powered Intel is now willing to admit that it failed to deliver x86 chips on the level of Apple Silicon, which is why the latter company is now in the process of transitioning its entire Mac product line to custom Arm-based chipsets that are as powerful as some desktop CPUs while needing much less power to operate.

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is widely expected to turn the company into the leader of process and packaging technology by 2025. To that end, Intel

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(PR) Apple introduces M1 Pro and M1 Max chips with up to 10 CPU and 32 GPU cores

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Introducing M1 Pro and M1 Max: the most powerful chips Apple has ever built

Powering the all-new MacBook Pro, new chips feature up to a 10-core CPU, 32-core GPU, 64GB of unified memory, ProRes acceleration, and industry-leading power efficiency

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