"M3 Ultra is the pinnacle of our scalable system-on-a-chip architecture, aimed specifically at users who run the most heavily threaded and bandwidth-intensive applications," Johny Srouji, Apple's senior vice president of hardware technologies,

Apple's Mac Studio compact desktop system is on a less frequent upgrade cycle than its laptops -- more frequent than the Mac Pro, though, which makes sense given the Pro's more commercial target audience -- but like all Apple computers,

Apple today announced M3 Ultra, the highest-performing chip it has ever created, offering the most powerful CPU and GPU in a Mac, double the Neural Engine cores, and the most unified memory ever in a personal computer.