Apple releases new M4 Max SoC, which is expected to power new MacBook Pro models

Apple on Tuesday announced the existence of the new M4 Max SoC, which is widely expected to power the new MacBook Pro models that will be unveiled this week.

Charlie Joseph on X:
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Hurray! Looks like the M4 Max MacBook Pros are coming tomorrow, I assume? 😆

Given that the “M4 Max” image resources are now on Apple's website (that wasn't the case before last time I checked)

The image has since been removed by Apple and now returns the text “Asset Not Found”.

Joe Rossignol for MacRumors:
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It's already pretty obvious that Apple is planning to announce new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models with M4, M4 Pro and M4 Max chips this week, after Apple announced several Mac promised related announcements. The image of the M4 Max chip now underlines that Apple is preparing to announce the new laptops soon. Apple is expected to unveil the new MacBook Pro models on Wednesday with a press release and video.

Because of this leak, the 14-inch MacBook Pro base model leak in Russia, and the new Mac mini leak on Amazon, Apple is struggling to keep these M4 Mac announcements secret, which is pretty rare territory for the company.

This discovery comes after Apple today announced the M4 Pro chip alongside the new Mac mini. Key specifications of the M4 Pro chip include a CPU with up to 14 cores, a GPU with up to 20 cores, a 16-core Neural Engine, support for up to 64GB of RAM, support for Thunderbolt 5, and increased speed of 273 GB/s of memory bandwidth. For the M4 Pro chip with 14-core CPU, there are 10 performance cores and four efficiency cores. The M4 Max specs haven't been leaked, but performance will obviously be even higher than the M4 Pro chip.

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MacDailyNews Take: This week (probably tomorrow) the new M4 Max MacBook Pro is coming out, and you're going to like it (a lot)!

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