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Will be interesting to see what improvements will be made to M2, given its most likely going to be on the same process node as M1 (TSMC 5nm). This event probab
by bearjaws 5y ago
Will be interesting to see what improvements will be made to M2, given its most likely going to be on the same process node as M1 (TSMC 5nm).
This event probably won't tell us much, I am sure all the graphs will be relative scaled with cherry picked benchmarks, making comparison difficult.
- monocasa 5y agoWhy is it likely going to be on 5nm? 3nm has been in risk production for months now, which would line up with enough lead time for full production for normal Mac refreshes early fall.
- vineyardmike 5y agoThat’s just the rumors. Rumor is apple didn’t buy the rights to first run of 3nm. Rumor is intel actually did for some of their new CPUs
- monocasa 5y agoThere's no way Intel did for their CPUs, it'd be on their roadmap. They're not going to say "oh here's a new uarch" out of nowhere. Like, the Sapphire Rapids CPUs are all being sold about now to the corporate accounts. Maybe their GPUs that they keep teasing but even that's a stretch, IMO.
- vineyardmike 5y agoWell you’re partially right about the GPU. https://www.techradar.com/news/intel-locks-down-all-remaining-tsmc-3nm-production-capacity-boxing-out-amd-and-apple https://www.techradar.com/news/intel-locks-down-all-remainin...
- monocasa 5y agoI mean, this is why you don't take rumors as gospel. Those Intel data center chips would be actively being sold right now to the datacenter vendors and they haven't announced anything other than the fact that Sapphire Rapids is going to be Intel 7 still. Everything they've announced on their CPU roadmap since that article came out has been stating that they're staying on Intel's foundry for the moment, and certainly not switching for the timeframe of the early mass production slots on N3 (early fall).