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From someone who was briefed by Apple [1], this is Apple segmenting these processors. The M1 Pro and the M2 Pro were closer to their respective Max variants. W

• alberth 3y ago
  What’s strange about this strategy is it’s less cost effective because Apple is now designing a completely different Pro & Max chiplet, as opposed to just scaling up the base chiplet as done in the M1 & M2. This is a lot of extra complexity they are inflicting on themselves if accurate.
  • chii 3y ago
    > extra complexity if this extra complexity is mitigated by hiring a larger, separate team (rather than strain existing engineers), then they might win overall because of the customer segmentation.
  • 3c6bYDXLMj 3y ago
    I trust that Apple knows significantly more about the efficiency of their chip design process.
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  • Aaargh20318 3y ago
    > What’s strange about this strategy is it’s less cost effective because Apple is now designing a completely different Pro & Max chiplet That may be true for the M3, but they undoubtedly are already working on the M4 and M5; they may have bigger differences planned for future releases that require the Pro and Max designs to be separate. Could be that they are just doing the initial work to split the design into two branches for M3 so they can make more changes from M4 onwards.
    • cyanydeez 3y ago
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