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My bet, Apple begins designing chips specific to each product line. Meaning, - iPad get their own unique chip - MacPro, unique chip - etc And this iPad rum
by alberth 2y ago
My bet, Apple begins designing chips specific to each product line.
Meaning,
- iPad get their own unique chip
- MacPro, unique chip
- etc
And this iPad rumor is just the first Apple Silicon unique product chip.
- aurareturn 2y agoWhy does the iPad Pro require a unique chip from a base Mac? Remember that it costs tens/hundreds of millions to tape out a chip.
- kmeisthax 2y agoThey already do this with fuses to lock each chip to a specific iBoot, OS, and release[0] set. Changing the configuration of the chip is unnecessary. iPhones, iPads, and Macs use roughly the same balance of compute. The thing that does need to change is how many cores in each compute device, but they already do this with A17 vs. M3 vs. M3 Pro/Max/Ultra. That already segregates the product lines a bit: iPads aren't getting anything bigger than an M3/M4, Mac Pros aren't getting anything smaller than an M3 Max, etc. [0] e.g. production devices vs. Apple internal devkits vs. that weird Security Research Device they released a few years ago to compete with Corellium
- alberth 2y agoThe M3 Pro is already a custom chip vs the M3 (base) or M3 Max. The M3 Pro is the only chip that has 6E cores. Both the M3 base and M3 Max only have 4E cores.