Chip Apple developed for the Apple Car reportedly carried a whopping 536 billion transistors

Chip Apple developed for the Apple Car reportedly carried a whopping 536 billion transistors،

Last month, Apple ended development of the Apple Car after spending ten years and ten billion dollars to create an autonomous vehicle. One of the components Apple built for the car was a new chip said to have the same performance capabilities as four M2 Ultra chips! Since each M2 Ultra chip is equipped with 134 billion transistors, a 24-core CPU, a 76-core GPU, and a 32-core Neural Engine, putting four of these components together creates a extremely powerful chip.

Imagine a chip carrying 536 billion transistors with a 96-core CPU and a 304-core GPU. While there's no definitive proof that the chip Apple planned to use to power the Apple Car was perfectly equivalent to four M2 Ultra chips, consider that the number of transistors inside a chip determines the power and/or energy efficiency of that chip. Using the “UltraFusion” technology that helped Apple combine two M1 Max chips to become the M1 Ultra, and combine two M2 Max chips to become the M2 Ultra, Apple could have hoped to create an incredibly powerful silicon component from four M2 Ultra chips.

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Let's make a simple comparison. The A17 Pro application processor (AP) that powers the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max contains 19 billion transistors, just 3.5% of the number of transistors that could have been placed inside the chip that Apple would have used to “drive” the Apple. Car. Wccftech said the new chip Apple was developing for the Apple Car was “almost complete” before Apple fired the project. Could this chip have been the M3 Ultra?

When Apple introduces the M3 Ultra, it will be interesting to see if any of the specifications of this chip match the powerful chip that would have been used in the Apple car. One thing we can be sure of, this chip would have been built by TSMC, the largest foundry in the world.