Apple M4

The Apple M4, released in May 2024, is the fourth generation of Apple's unified memory architecture chip, built on TSMC's 3nm N3E process. Its 38-core Neural Engine delivers 38 TOPS (trillion operations per second). What distinguishes the M4 for AI workloads is its memory architecture: the CPU, GPU, and Neural Engine all access the same physical memory pool with no data copying. In the 14-inch MacBook Pro configuration with 32GB unified memory, the M4 can run 70B-parameter language models locally — something that requires a discrete GPU workstation on other platforms. AICI regards local inference capability as significant for privacy-sensitive AI use cases: models running on-device process no data through cloud infrastructure.

Architecture: Apple Silicon (4th gen) | Process: TSMC 3nm (N3E) | Neural Engine: 38 cores, 38 TOPS | Unified Memory: up to 32GB | Memory Bandwidth: 120 GB/s | CPU: 10-core | GPU: 10-core