Apple’s new M6 chip gets more cores and more AI compute

Apple unveiled the M6, its first 2 nm Mac processor, featuring a 12-core CPU (two super cores, four performance cores, six efficiency cores) and a dual 16-core Neural Engine for on-device AI. The chip promises higher performance and better power efficiency, while the accompanying M5 Ultra is marketed as Apple’s most powerful chip for demanding tasks such as 3D rendering and frontier AI models.