A New And More Powerful M4 Chip

The biggest surprise of the event lies inside the iPad Pro. Apple said that the only way to make the new iPad Pro models possible was by using a brand-new processor.

So, instead of taking the logical next step and going with the M3 chip, which is the most powerful Apple silicon chip before now, Apple introduced the M4 chip on the iPad — before it even came to the Mac.

As you can expect, this new chip is a performance beast. According to Apple, the M4 chip features up to 50% faster CPU performance when compared to the M2 chip in the previous iPad Pro.

Further, there are actually two different M4 chips available. The first chip features a 9-core CPU with three performance cores and six efficiency cores. This chip will be featured in the iPad Pro models with 256GB and 512GB. 

On the other hand, there’s a slightly more powerful M4 chip that has a 10-core CPU with four performance cores and six efficiency cores, which will be exclusive to the iPad Pro models with 1TB or 2TB of storage. As with the lower-specced chips on Apple’s MacBooks, this is undoubtedly a case of chip binning rather than a deliberate decision to handicap the lower-capacity models.

If you don’t care about the specs, just know that this new M4 chip will make the new iPad Pro models faster, more powerful, and energy-efficient.