3 ms·
Their current 28-core Mac Pro (which even has a rack version) is probably not a volume business either, that doesn't stop them from making them. It's probably
by em500 6y ago
Their current 28-core Mac Pro (which even has a rack version) is probably not a volume business either, that doesn't stop them from making them. It's probably much cheaper to go for the performance crown with their own CPU now than with Intel/AMD in the past. See it as Apples Bugatti Veyron/Chiron :)
- eloff 6y agoThey didn't have to make a special chip for it though, it can be economical to offer a small volume product made of off the shelf components. It's a losing venture to do it with custom designed chips - that's extremely expensive and I doubt the market is large enough to justify it. Unless they intend to get into servers. I'm very curious to see what they do.
- _ph_ 6y agoThey have to make a server-class chip if they want to have something like the Mac Pro on ARM too. To actually go into the server business they might have to add a bit more I/O capability like Epyc vs. Threadripper, but the basic cpu should be more than up to it, if it has 32 performance cores or more. Even just a rack-mounted M1 would be interesting for many server applications and anything above more so.