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If 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.
by quirino 5y ago
If 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.