SAN FRANCISCO — Apple has unveiled a series of new iPads Tuesday, showcasing the potential of new tablets for artificial intelligence features as they try to catch up with rivals in the AI race.
The Cupertino, Calif., company said a new M4 chipset used in its Pro models contains a more powerful “neural engine” to drive features of third-party apps and its own software that relies on AI and technology. machine learning. These motors have been part of Apple’s chips since 2017, but have since become significantly more powerful, the company said. Tim Millet, the company’s vice president of platform architecture, claimed that the M4’s neural engine is capable of performing 38 trillion operations per second, more than double the operations per second compared to to the basic M3 chipset found in the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and iMac.
