What can we expect from the M4 Ultra chip, will we have new Mac Pro and Mac Studio in 2025?

This 2025 will be key to see the update of what would be the best chip for Mac in its history, the M4 Ultra chip that could arrive at WWDC 2025

He year 2025 without a doubt it will be relevant for high-end and entry-level Macs. Of course, we are referring to the most powerful Macs and the MacBook Air that still need to be updated with the M4 chips. If we talk especially about the Mac Pro and Mac Studiothese teams stayed with the M2 Ultra chip. Taking into account the leaps that Apple has made with its products in terms of the chip, We do not doubt that this is the year for the best Apple computers to be updated with the M4 Ultra chip. How close are we to its launch?

The power of the M4 Ultra has an existing clue, the M4 Max chip

Beyond design changes in equipment or some other important specification, The most relevant thing about the Mac Pro and Mac Studio will be the M4 Ultra chip. The path could already be laid out if we realize the latest benchmark: the M4 Max and M4 Ultra chips for the Mac Studio and the M4 Ultra chip for the Mac Pro.

For example, the M4 Max chip has already offered evidence of what it means in the MacBook Pro. Its performance is far above the M2 Ultra in single-core and multi-core character. Apple could follow the path used previously, joining two Max chips to create the Ultra. Instead of having 16 cores they would rise to 32. The RAM memory reaches up to 192 GB but Apple could surprise us with up to 256 GBan abysmal amount.

The M4 Ultra chip will make history at Apple

So why wasn’t there an M3 Ultra chip? Some rumors at the time indicated that Apple failed to which was evident in past generations. The UltraFusion connection failed to materialize because the M3 Ultra could perhaps have been a single chip and not the connection of two. Apple did not want to take too much risk by launching a “common chip.” Another possible answer is that maybe there wouldn’t be that much difference as there was at the time between M1 and M2 Ultra chips. It is better to wait to have a correct balance and be able to compare performances with a margin of difference. Mark Gurman pointed out in November 2024 that we could see a CPU with up to 32 cores and a GPU with up to 80 cores

When will the remaining Macs be released?

There is no better framework than doing it at WWDC 2025a time when Apple has already shown progress with Apple Silicon chips. Now we do not expect a surprise launch like the one that the iPad Pro with M4 represented in anticipation of the Macs, instead, a cycle of launches that had not happened for years could be completed, all Macs updated with a single generation of chip.

Is a product redesign expected? There are no rumors that confirm it, the only rumor about a redesign was of the Mac mini and it was the drastic change that Mark Gurman talked about for months. It will be a matter of time before Gurman himself can offer us a deeper look at the most powerful Macs. About the MacBook Air we cannot expect more than what is already knowna Mac updated to the M4 chip with the same design as its predecessors.

Mac Studio and Apple Mac Pro

However, There are reasons to expect a redesign of at least Mac Studio. If we look at it this way, We have two generations that have not yet undergone design changes. The Mac Studio in a smaller size like the Mac mini? It would be a possibility although it would not match to be a high-end Mac with the best performance. It is better not to get excited until you have more rumors or reports about it.

While The Mac Pro, in its past with Intel, did not have the expected change in design. They settled for the classic “garbage can” design and that was it. With Apple Silicon it would be expected that it could have different changes although it is also positioned in a second generation like its smaller brother in size.

All available Macs would be updated to the M4 chip

The unknowns that remain to be resolved, in addition to the design issue, are about the M4 Ultra chip and the connection that unites the Max chips. Has Apple found a way to unify all that power into a single chip? If those from Cupertino already have this final form made, we can get excited about a great future in terms of Mac performancesomething we could never see with a Mac made under the Intel architecture.

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