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Sure, it's not interconnected as in multiple sockets on the motherboard talking over QPI, but it's a silicon interconnect. The M1 Ultra is two M1 Max processor
by LeifCarrotson 5y ago
Sure, it's not interconnected as in multiple sockets on the motherboard talking over QPI, but it's a silicon interconnect. The M1 Ultra is two M1 Max processors on an interconnect with some DRAM.
Here's the Pro, with 8 or 10 CPU cores and 14 or 16 GPU cores, depending on die yield issues where they might have to shut off a couple cores:
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/images/product/mac/standard/Apple_M1-Pro-M1-Max_M1-Pro_10182021_big_carousel.jpg.large_2x.jpg https://www.apple.com/newsroom/images/product/mac/standard/A...
Here's the Max, with 10 CPU cores and either 24 or 32 GPU cores for the same reason:
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/images/product/mac/standard/Apple_M1-Pro-M1-Max_M1-Max_10182021_big_carousel.jpg.large_2x.jpg https://www.apple.com/newsroom/images/product/mac/standard/A...
And here's the Ultra:
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/images/product/mac/standard/Apple-M1-Ultra-chipset-220308_big.jpg.slideshow-xlarge_2x.jpg https://www.apple.com/newsroom/images/product/mac/standard/A...
It's literally two M1 Max bolted together with more RAM around the periphery.
- philistine 5y agoYeah but those two Max chips that make one Ultra have to be next to one another already on the wafer. That leaves no room for error or picking up a chip from somewhere else.
- LeifCarrotson 5y agoThere are a lot of ways to win Tetris with 1x2 blocks! If you make an M1 Max wafer there are a lot of ways to spin out 8/24-core Maxes, 10/32-core Maxes, and adjacent 10/32 core Maxes into an Ultra. Nothing in the patent seems to indicate they have to decide which ones to use before testing the wafer...