In a major announcement, Apple has unveiled new iPad tablets that have been redesigned with a powerful AI chip. This marks the company’s first iPad releases in two years and indicates that it is now ready to fully integrate artificial intelligence into its devices. The latest version of the iPad Pro features a new chip called the M4, which is more powerful than the current chip used in Apple’s laptops and is capable of handling more AI tasks.
Apple’s senior vice president of hardware technologies, Johny Srouji, has stated that the new chip makes the iPad Pro the most powerful device of its kind. This latest development comes as Apple has been criticized for being slow to embrace AI technology, with Microsoft surpassing it as the world’s largest company by market capitalization. However, analysts anticipate that the capabilities of the M4 chip will extend to other Apple products, including iPhones and laptops.
Microsoft has fully embraced AI technology and has incorporated it into its software and applications, providing tools like Copilot chat functionality to its cloud computing clients. This move by Apple is seen as a response to Microsoft’s dominance in this field. CEO Tim Cook highlighted the importance of generative AI across all of Apple’s product lines following their latest earnings report. It remains to be seen how this will affect future product development at both companies but it seems clear that both companies are investing heavily in AI technology.
