A 4+4 core M1 is 16 billion transistors. Some of that is the little cores, GPU, etc, but its not clear to me its practical to get, say 8x larger. That would be

A 4+4 core M1 is 16 billion transistors. Some of that is the little cores, GPU, etc, but its not clear to me its practical to get, say 8x larger. That would be 128 billion transistors. As a point of comparison, NVIDIA's RTX 3090 is 28B transistors, and thats a huge, expensive chip.