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Apple’s Chip Developed for Cancelled ‘Apple Car’ Project Was as Powerful as Four M2 Ultra Chips By Chris Hauk A special thanks to iDropNews for republishing permission. Images provided by iDropNews. Be sure to visit them at idropnews.com Apple Talk is just that. Talk.The information provided in the Apple Talk section has NOT been confirmed by Apple and may be speculation or rumors. After nearly a decade of development, Apple’s $10 billion “Apple Car” project was recently canceled by the Cupertino company. The termination of the electric vehicle project has left observers with several unanswered questions, such as what custom technology was developed for the project and what the company will do with the tech now that it isn’t needed for an Apple Car. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman recently held a Q&A with his readers about the canceled vehicle project, where he shared a few tidbits about the technology Apple created from scratch for the project — including the most powerful system on a chip ever developed by the Apple silicon team. Gurman was asked about how involved in the Apple Car project the Apple silicon team was, Gurman replied: Perhaps reluctantly, the Apple Silicon team was heavily involved in the Apple car project. Remember, the most important part of the car was its AI brain. That all ran on Apple silicon. The chip Apple developed was nearly finished. It was equal to about four M2 Ultras combined. That would be quite a powerful chip! The M2 Ultra, which is two M2 Max chips joined, boasts 134 billion transistors. That’s already the second-highest transistor count in a consumer microprocessor, only recently surpassed by AMD’s 146-billion-transistor Instinct MI300A. However, the SoC Apple developed for use in its vehicle would have blown past that with roughly 536 billion transistors, making it the largest chip ever created by any consumer technology company.