Apple introduces the M4 Pro chip, which finally brings Thunderbolt 5 support

Apple has announced new iMacs and a refreshed Mac Mini desktop computer, with the latter featuring the brand-new M4 Pro chip. The M4 Pro chip brings Thunderbolt 5 support to Macs, offering a baseline speed of 80 Gbps and support for 120 Gbps, as well as dual 6K screen support. This is a significant improvement for Mac Mini users in video editing and related fields. The M4 Pro chip boasts the world's fastest CPU core, delivering the industry's best single-threaded performance and dramatically faster multithreaded performance. The chip features a 14-core CPU, a 16-core neural engine, and a 20-core GPU with dynamic caching. It also supports up to 64GB of unified memory and 273GB/s of memory bandwidth, doubling the bandwidth of other AI PC chips. This enables accelerated AI workloads and blazing performance for Apple Intelligence. The M4 Pro chip is a significant upgrade from the previous generation, with faster cores and a faster ray-tracing engine. It is likely that the M4 Pro chip will appear in other Apple products, such as laptops, in the future. The M3 Pro chip began appearing in MacBook Pro laptops last year, so a similar rollout is possible this year. Overall, the M4 Pro chip is a major leap forward in Apple's chip technology.