{"id":796131,"date":"2026-07-12T20:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T20:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/796131\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T20:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T20:27:13","slug":"apples-m7-ultra-could-take-on-nvidia-blackwell-with-a-staggering-1-5tb-of-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/796131\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple’s M7 Ultra could take on Nvidia Blackwell with a staggering 1.5TB of memory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple\u2019s next flagship chip may not just be another performance upgrade. Instead, it could be the company\u2019s biggest AI leap yet. According to Bloomberg\u2019s Mark Gurman<\/a>, Apple is developing the M7 Ultra<\/a> with one clear goal: dramatically boosting AI performance. Expected to arrive in 2028, the processor is reportedly being designed to handle workloads on a scale that brings it closer to dedicated AI accelerators like Nvidia\u2019s Blackwell<\/a> than traditional desktop processors.<\/p>\n

A desktop chip with server-class memory<\/p>\n

The biggest headline is memory. Bloomberg reports that the M7 Ultra is being designed to support up to 1.5TB of unified memory, which is roughly double the capacity currently planned for Apple\u2019s upcoming M5 Ultra<\/a>. That\u2019s an eye-watering amount even by workstation standards, and far beyond what today\u2019s consumer Macs offer. The idea is simple: larger AI models demand larger memory pools, and Apple wants its future silicon to handle them without constantly relying on external storage or cloud processing.<\/p>\n

\"Apple<\/p>\n

\t\tApple M7 Ultra Concept AI Generated<\/p>\n

There is one catch, though. Bloomberg notes that whether Apple can actually ship Macs with the full 1.5TB configuration will depend on the state of the memory market. Ongoing memory-chip shortages<\/a> continue to make high-capacity modules difficult to source and significantly more expensive, meaning the maximum configuration may ultimately depend as much on supply chains as on engineering.<\/p>\n

Apple Intelligence isn\u2019t the only target<\/p>\n

The M7 Ultra isn\u2019t just being built for future Macs, either. According to Bloomberg, Apple also plans to use the chip as the backbone of its next-generation AI servers. While an M5 Ultra-based server platform is expected to arrive first, engineers are already developing a more powerful M7 Ultra-powered architecture targeted for deployment around 2029, helping power Apple Intelligence both on-device and in the cloud.<\/p>\n

\"Purple,<\/p>\n

\t\tApple<\/p>\n

More importantly, the M7 Ultra highlights a major shift in Apple\u2019s silicon strategy. Instead of focusing solely on faster CPUs, better graphics, or improved battery life, Bloomberg says AI is now dictating how the company designs its chips. That\u2019s reportedly why Apple accelerated the M7 family, with the Ultra model expected to deliver AI performance much closer to enterprise accelerators like Nvidia\u2019s Blackwell<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"NVIDIA<\/p>\n

\t\tNVIDIA Blackwell Architecture NVIDIA<\/a><\/p>\n

In other words, Apple is no longer building chips that happen to support AI \u2014 it\u2019s building chips around AI. If Bloomberg\u2019s roadmap proves accurate, the M7 Ultra won\u2019t just be another annual silicon refresh. It could mark the point at which Apple\u2019s AI ambitions begin to compete with those of some of the biggest names in enterprise computing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s next flagship chip may not just be another performance upgrade. Instead, it could be the company\u2019s biggest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1337,374258,64,63,257,105],"class_list":["post-796131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-apple-m7-ultra","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-computing","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}