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Absolutely massive improvement in CPU performance in a single year. Looks like TSMC N2 is going to be a very good node.

+22% faster single thread

+34% faster multi thread

+40% GPU

This is suppose to be the generation that Apple wants to fast forward because they want to put more resources into the M7 generation for local AI. There are no M6 Pro/Max/Ultra planned.

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I think the key AI improvement is that these chips double the memory bandwidth and this has been the main limit for AI performance recently, became LLMs do not fit into cache.

They should use LPDDR6 which is a sizable improvement but the other thing they can do is increase prompt processing even further.

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