$AAPL just introduced the new Mac mini and Mac Studio. The new Mac mini is powered by the M6 chip, with Apple claiming up to a 4x improvement in AI performance. It starts at $899. The new Mac Studio comes with either the M5 Max or M5 Ultra. The M5 Ultra configuration supports: • Up to 512GB of unified memory • 1.2TB/s of memory bandwidth • Up to an 80-core GPU • The ability to run large LLMs entirely on-device Apple also added Thunderbolt 5 and RDMA support to Mac Studio, allowing multiple systems to be connected together and delivering up to a 3x improvement in distributed AI inference performance. Mac Studio starts at $2,499, while the M5 Ultra version starts at $5,499. My Take: Apple is effectively bringing the concept of an AI server to the desktop, and the breakthrough it is focusing
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