I also wondered about binning, so I pulled together how heavily Apple's Max chips were binned in shipping configurations. M1 Max - 24 to 32 GPU cores M2 Max -

I also wondered about binning, so I pulled together how heavily Apple's Max chips were binned in shipping configurations. M1 Max - 24 to 32 GPU cores M2 Max - 30 to 38 GPU cores M3 Max - 30 to 40 GPU cores M4 Max - 32 to 40 GPU cores I also looked up the announcement dates for the Max and the Ultra variant in each generation. M1 Max - October 18, 2021 M1 Ultra - March 8, 2022 M2 Max - January 17, 2023 M2 Ultra - June 5, 2023 M3 Max - October 30, 2023 M3 Ultra - March 12, 2025 M4 Max - October 30, 2024 > My guess is that Apple developed this chip for their internal AI efforts As good a guess as any, given the additional delay between the M3 Max and Ultra being made available to the public.