--- title: The ARM chip race is getting wild… Apple M4 unveiled description: Apple unveiled its latest chip, the M4, which is claimed to be the biggest and baddest chip in the PC market. It offers a 50% faster CPU, built-in Ray tracing,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-arm-chip-race-is-getting-wild-apple-m4-unveiled-rswki2ilh twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The ARM chip race is getting wild… Apple M4 unveiled | daily.dev og:description: Apple unveiled its latest chip, the M4, which is claimed to be the biggest and baddest chip in the PC market. It offers a 50% faster CPU, built-in Ray tracing,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-arm-chip-race-is-getting-wild-apple-m4-unveiled-rswki2ilh og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/rsWKi2iLH.png og:image:alt: The ARM chip race is getting wild… Apple M4 unveiled og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The ARM chip race is getting wild… Apple M4 unveiled **[Fireship](https://daily.dev/sources/fireship)** · 4 min read · 219 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary Apple unveiled its latest chip, the M4, which is claimed to be the biggest and baddest chip in the PC market. It offers a 50% faster CPU, built-in Ray tracing, and a powerful neural engine capable of handling 38 trillion operations per second. The arm-based chip race is heating up with major players like Samsung, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Amazon, and Google all joining. Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon X Elite chip may outperform the M4. x86 architecture is still relevant with Intel and AMD releasing new processors. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@perseon** · 5 upvotes > Apple makes great hardware and by all means I would like to have one of their products with an m4 processor, and I will pay the premium for the 16 gigs / decent storage space. My problem with apple is the walled garden, the virtually no upgrade path and the hostility towards open standards so I'll wait for the Snapdragon X or whatever will offer a matching experience **@mattybilly** · 1 upvotes > I have read that GenAI developers who want to develop locally should get an Apple laptop/PC with an M1-M3 chip (price & strength of processors). With that being said, I am wondering how much getting an Apple M4 laptop/PC would benefit someone in the position of doing local LLM development. Is it more cost-effective to get a used Apple device with an M1/M2/M3 chip? Can the faster CPU & the M4 chip help with local GenAI development, for instance, improve the tokens/s that an LLM can spit out vs. an M3 chip? --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#apple](https://daily.dev/tags/apple) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-arm-chip-race-is-getting-wild-apple-m4-unveiled-rswki2ilh) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"The ARM chip race is getting wild… Apple M4 unveiled","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-arm-chip-race-is-getting-wild-apple-m4-unveiled-rswki2ilh","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-arm-chip-race-is-getting-wild-apple-m4-unveiled-rswki2ilh"},"datePublished":"2024-05-08T19:14:22.114Z","dateModified":"2024-05-08T19:14:20.119Z","description":"Apple unveiled its latest chip, the M4, which is claimed to be the biggest and baddest chip in the PC market. 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