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Looks like all the people saying "just start fusing those M1 CPU's into bigger ones" were right, that's basically what they did for the top of the line new M1 C
by cube2222 5y ago
Looks like all the people saying "just start fusing those M1 CPU's into bigger ones" were right, that's basically what they did for the top of the line new M1 CPU (fused two M1 Max'es together).
And since the presenter mentioned the Mac Pro would come on another day, I wonder if they'll just do 4x M1 Max for that.
- quirino 5y agoIf they do create another chip for the Mac Pro, I wonder what they'll call it. We have the M1, M1 Pro, M1 Max and M1 Ultra so far.
- cehrlich 5y agoPro, Max, Ultra, Mega?
- nameless912 5y agoThere's a New Nintendo 23DSLite iXL[1] joke in here somewhere. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4MHRcPLr38 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4MHRcPLr38
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- minimaxir 5y agoM1 Plus Ultra. Just go full anime.
- dilap 5y agoM1 Ultra Pro, baby
- nicoburns 5y agoMaybe it won't be M at all? I still reckon they might do discrete GPUs for the pro model, which could make it quite different to the other M chips.
- nojito 5y agoM1 Ultra Max
- hughrr 5y agoReminds me of this from Minions: https://youtu.be/Xs4LF8QnELM https://youtu.be/Xs4LF8QnELM At least it’s less confusing than the fucked up Intel and AMD product numbers.
- deadcore 5y agoHolding out for the M1 Ultra Magnum Turbo
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- moooo99 5y agoWhen handing over to the M1 Ultra part of the keynote he literally said something along the lines of "we're adding this last M1 chip to our lineup". So maybe an upcoming Mac Pro will have the next generation of Apple Silicon (M2). I am curious to see how that device will look like. Surprisingly, with the last Mac Pro the modularity of the device and the ability to user-upgrade GPU, RAM or storage was actually a huge selling point that Apple emphasized. I can't imagine how this would work with Apple Silicon.
- pg_bot 5y agoMega, Supra, Domina, Prima, Stellar, Noto, Nova, Jumbo.
- can16358p 5y agoM1 Epic (late 2022) M1 Ludicrous (early 2023) M1 Insane (late 2023) Probably they'll make enough changes to release M2 by that time.
- doctor_eval 5y agoYou missed M1 Plaid.
- mkaic 5y agoM1 Maximum Plaid (late early 2024)
- mekster 5y ago> M1 Epic Will Epic add that naming to its case?
- can16358p 5y agoProbably. Might want to claim a 30% cut from sales of hardware with that chip.
- Toutouxc 5y agoM1 Hammersword Despacito.
- speed_spread 5y agoM1 Double Plus Good
- eyelidlessness 5y agoI’m surprised they’ve introduced four M1 variants already, and while that makes a fifth variant seem more likely… I still think they’ll want to find another way to differentiate the new Mac Pro. What seems more likely to me: the M2 MBA is released either in tandem with a M2 Ultra MP, or a few months ahead of it, and the other higher spec models will lag 6-12 months behind from then on. Especially given the significant delays on M1 Max, it makes sense to me they’ll want to roll out the next gen in a lower volume/higher margin while they ramp up production.
- krunkcoin 5y agore: four M1 variants, the clever thing is that from a certain perspective, they've only designed two. It's just that one of those two (M1 Max) was designed such that it could be scaled down down to M1 Pro and up to M1 Ultra. On scaling down, they simply designed and laid out M1 Max such that half the GPU cores, memory controllers, and media encoders were divisible from the rest of the chip, with the interface between the two a clean, straight cut line. To make M1 Pro masks, they likely just took the M1 Max mask artwork, cropped it, and did minor cleanup on the cropped edge to terminate all the dangling connections. To make M1 Ultra, they just "glue" two M1 Max die together with advanced packaging and interconnect technology. Every M1 Max ships with an unused die-to-die interconnect block along one edge of the chip.
- mekster 5y agoThis is just about CPU but I really wish they go back to simpler naming for macOS. Cat namings were good and memorable but now I don't even remember what I'm using nor which version is newer. Even the spellings are hard for foreigners.
- unfocussed_mike 5y agoI think the Mac Pro is almost like a phantom product at this point. Or a riff. Like they're going to say "the new Mac Pro is there is no more Mac Pro". What can they really do, in a single machine, that is more "Pro" than the Studio? How are they going to bring developers along when most aren't developing for twenty-core machines? I still think something else is coming. Maybe something unconventionally stackable. Something for render farms. Whatever it is, it feels like it's going to need novel OS support.
- cududa 5y agoThey literally said in the keynote that the new Mac Pro is in the pipeline
- unfocussed_mike 5y agoRight, but the keynote is marketing. And they've been saying that for, what, nearly a decade now? [0] And in that time they have chipped away at that segment from different directions, with the iMac Pro and the Mac Studio. The latter of which is a beast already. What's left? Render farms, scaleable computing. I guess I think there will be some sort of new machine in that segment. But I figure it's not going to be what people expect from a single, unitary Mac Pro desktop. Because once you're up at that level of performance requirement, you start to want modular and scaleable things. What is the pitch for the part of the market that is used to using commodity hardware in scaleable configurations? [0] Edit: I obviously forgot the cheese grater
- karlshea 5y ago> And they've been saying that for, what, nearly a decade now? The latest generation is from 2019?
- unfocussed_mike 5y agoI guess. I mean, it's a forgettable stopgap machine (I forgot it ;-) It's not really what people wanted, is it? It's just something they had to put on sale to shut people up. A conventional, Intel-era thing. They've been saying "something really great is coming", all that. That Mac Pro was not that. Does Apple still care about the market that wants to plug in internal GPU cards? Does that make much sense even in the context of hardware the speed of the Mac Studio? I wonder.
- jws 5y agoThe dialog around unveiling the Ultra had a “one final member of M1” vibe to it. I think that is the end for M1. The next cpu bumps will be M2s. Also I wonder about fabrication nodes. The iPhone SE is going to take a lot of dies and keep that fan very busy. M1 is on something else, but it isn’t going to free the A15 fab for other customers. I expect M2 is on a different process.
- Someone 5y ago> and keep that fan very busy The wonders of auto-correct, I guess. It took me a moment to correct that to “and keep that faB very busy”. ”faN” made me wonder why you thought that phone ran hot and had a fan.
- GeekyBear 5y agoAn entry level M2 has been showing up in software developers logs. 4 big cores, 4 little cores (like the M1, but based on newer gen iPhone cores) and 10 GPU cores instead of 8. Said to be based on TSMC 4nm.
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