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I think its fairly obvious they've hit some problems. I know they lost a lot of key people in their silicon development team so perhaps thats the reason. Whate
by esskay 4y ago
I think its fairly obvious they've hit some problems. I know they lost a lot of key people in their silicon development team so perhaps thats the reason.
Whatever it is they're struggling to get the performance they need for a Mac Pro level machine.
I'd imagine part of it is going to be that they'll want to continue using Nvidia or AMD GPU's to allow for higher performance. That can't be an easy or simple thing to get working with their custom ARM based architecture.
- matwood 4y ago> I know they lost a lot of key people in their silicon development team so perhaps thats the reason. Maybe, but people are always coming and going on any team. This whole story felt like a tempest in a teapot type of thing. IMO, given the typical lead time of hardware, we're finally seeing Apple have issues stemming from covid/supply chain breakdowns.
- avidphantasm 4y agoAlso, there’s a tension between the tightly integrated M1 Ultra and the expandability implied by the Mac Pro in its classic form (which the 2019 model revived). It almost seems like they need to go multi-socket with NUMA to scale CPU and memory further. This presents a very different programming model than the shared everything model of the Mac Studio.
- kilroy123 4y agoIt could also be an issue on the China side. The whole COVID/lockdown debacle has probably set things back a lot longer than they would have hoped.