Apple’s M1 Ultra tapes two M1 Max chips together

Apple is adding one last chip" to the M1 processor family. The M1 Ultra is a new design that uses UltraFusion" technology to strap two M1 Max chips together, resulting in a huge processor that offers 16 high-performance CPU cores, four efficiency cores, a 64-core integrated GPU, and support for up to 128GB of RAM.

It looks like Apple is using a chiplet-based design for the M1 Ultra, just like AMD is doing for many of its Ryzen chips. A chiplet-based approach, as we've written, uses multiple silicon dies to make larger chips and can result in better yields since you don't need to throw a whole monolithic 20-core chip out if a couple of cores have defects that keep them from working.

This is a beast of a chip, and it fits in this neat little new Mac, called the Mac Studio. Apple also unveiled a new, more affordable" monitor, but I'm not sure a monitor that maxes out at 60Hz in 2022 is worth 1779.