alt Hacker NewsThe rumor from Gurman is that the M5 Ultra Mac Studio ships in the first half of this year.
This may just be a sign that the M5 Ultra Mac Studio is shipping sooner rather than later, as it's common for Apple to push out ship dates for soon to be replaced products.
We do have leaked benchmarks showing that the M5 Max outperforms the M3 Ultra currently shipping in the Mac Studio, so buying an M3 Ultra Studio right now would be a terrible idea.
Slightly off-topic side remark:
Every mathematician and computer scientist should feel deeply confused that the M... Ultra is more powerful than the M... Max.
Why? Because if something is the maximum, there doesn't exist anything larger/better. :-)