Apple Reportedly Worked on Two 'Extreme' Chips
Apple reportedly canceled plans for 'Extreme' versions of its M2 and M3 chips intended for the Mac Pro due to high production costs and low market demand. The company has also discontinued the Mac Pro line after two decades.
Why it matters
This reveals Apple's strategic shift in hardware development and its willingness to abandon niche high-end products to maintain profitability.
Apple once developed "M2 Extreme" and "M3 Extreme" chips for the Mac Pro, but it decided not to release them, according to Bloomberg 's Mark Gurman . He first reported on this topic in 2022 , and he touched on it again in his Power On newsletter today.
"Extreme" chips would have had twice as many CPU and GPU cores as Apple's "Ultra" chips.
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