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Can someone explain to me what the benefit of this chip in an iPad is? Are people doing heavy workloads on iPads? Can the OS even utilize all the advantages?
Some image and video processing workflows can make use of them today, and today's announced video software features seem to be a roadmap for how iPads could be used in more computationally intensive workflows: editing, re-encoding, and sharing video between devices or to specific apps.
Some AI inference tasks could theoretically make heavier use of the CPUs, too.
The benefit is that Apple are making the chips and want to use the chips in as many products as they can. It doesn’t matter that the software is nowhere near the hardware, the chips are bought and paid for, so they’ll use them.
Fair enough, thanks
Also to be able to run the large OLED displays.
Actually yeah, the OLED is probably the biggest selling point to me. So if the M4 was necessary for that (was it? I have a M2 MacBook that I run on my LGC3 OLED) then cool
Doesn't matter, people see a bigger number and get out their wallets.