TOPS explained – exactly how powerful is Apple’s new M4 iPad chip?

Apple announced the M4 chip, a powerful new upgrade that will arrive in next-generation iPad (and, further down the line, the best Macbooks and Macs). You can check out our beat-by-beat coverage of the Apple event, but one element of the presentation has left some users confused: what exactly does TOPS mean?TOPS is an acronym for ‘trillion operations per second’, and is essentially a hardware-specific measure of AI capabilities. More TOPS means faster on-chip AI performance, in this case

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