Apple's rumored M7 Ultra targets 1.5TB and Blackwell-class AI performance
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- #Apple M7 Ultra
- #AI Performance
- #Memory Market
- Apple's rumored M7 Ultra chip targets up to 1.5TB unified memory, doubling M5 Ultra's planned capacity, and aims for AI performance close to Nvidia's Blackwell accelerators, with a 2028 release dependent on memory market conditions.
- Apple has compressed its Mac silicon timeline, taping out the M7 roughly six months after M6, leading to base M7 in H1 2027, M7 Pro/Max at end of 2027, and M7 Ultra in 2028, while skipping M6 Pro/Max/Ultra versions.
- The M7 Ultra's high memory configuration and AI enhancements are tied to memory availability, as Apple faced supply constraints with DRAM prices affecting products like the 128GB Mac Studio.
- Apple plans an AI server based on M5 Ultra (code name J246) soon, with a second server chip using M7 Ultra in 2029, and future 2028-generation chips like M8 (Soko) and Cardinal will use a 1.4nm process aligned with TSMC's A14 node.