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I’ve been wondering lately if the reason for the Mac Pro replacement not coming out until 2019 may be due to Apple switching to the 7nm refresh of the AMD Threa

by vondur 8y ago

I’ve been wondering lately if the reason for the Mac Pro replacement not coming out until 2019 may be due to Apple switching to the 7nm refresh of the AMD ThreadRipper. That would certainly make for some interesting news.

jamesu 8y ago
But then you've got other people who seem adamant they are switching the mac to their magically scaled up ARM chips. What on earth is really going on at Apple HQ?
- fipple 8y ago
  That will take several years. AMD could happen in months.
- vondur 8y ago
  I would think that the use cases for a laptop CPU and high end desktop may call for different CPU's. Plus the X64 arch is well supported by all of the apps you would use a MacPro for.
Waterluvian 8y ago
I read somewhere that Apple has been trying to avoid uttering the word "Intel" in their latest presentations. If that's true, maybe it lends a bit of vague support to your idea.
ksec 8y ago
Apple can't use Thunderbolt with AMD, and Intel has been delaying its opening of Thunderbolt standard for whatever reason. At this point I think Intel has been so disappointing in the past 3 years Apple should just dump them and takes matter into their own hands.