Apple's canceled car project left behind a powerful AI chip: the M7 Ultra

Apple’s failed self-driving car program left a legacy of powerful AI chips

Apple is speeding up work on the M7 Ultra, a chip that supports up to 1.5TB of RAM and traces its roots to the canceled self-driving car project. Originally built for on-vehicle AI, it's now likely headed to the Mac Pro for local LLM inference. The post doesn't disclose a launch date or price, but 1.5TB is enough to hold full weights of nearly any open-source model without offloading.

Why it matters: Apple's M7 Ultra pivots from a canceled self-driving program to Mac Pro for local LLM inference, with a concrete 1.5TB memory ceiling that matters to anyone running models locally. Score stays at 78 because the post doesn't disclose launch timing or pricing — specs alone witho...