I don’t think as many Bothans died for it though.
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'A19' and 'M5' Chips Discovered on Apple Backend Server
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/me already seeing Apple trying to rope in MI-5 in an advertising campaign. Now will they use the sharks with lasers, or the good ol' out of control robot army?
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I'm going to wait for the dual socketed M8 Extreme with 2TB of RAM, 3.2TBP/s bandwidth. And Quad Afterburner 2 GPU/ML/AL/video accelerator PCI-e cards. That makes a 4090Ti look like an Apple Watch series 1. And the whole system will only use 100watts of power at full tilt. 
I’m not surprised that Apple is working on chips years into the future.
I am debating on holding out until the M8 or M9 comes out, as well as the A24. Rumor has it, that the M8 is going to be faster than the M7, M6, M5, M4 and the upcoming M3.
Then again, there's going to be the M10.
This will give me time to take speed-reading and typing classes to get over 200 wpm so that I can keep up with the processor (whichever I wait for) as MacRumor, FB, Insta, TikTok go flying past me at lightning speed. I'll be able to write a book in half a day,, respond to 5,000 FB posts, read every rumor on MacRumor and respond to at least 200 comments, as well as look up that recipe, and check my stocks. I'll be able to finally login at work, run those reports, do an analysis (thanks AppleGPT), and plan a trip overseas on what I hope is a supersonic jet. Of course, once I get outside in nature, not sure I am going to know what to do with all that time that the future M Series chip will provide.
Eh, I'll slow it down a bit and just upgrade to the M3 and I'll be good for 15 years. That will be 15 years I will enjoy the great outdoors.
Then again, there's going to be the M10.
This will give me time to take speed-reading and typing classes to get over 200 wpm so that I can keep up with the processor (whichever I wait for) as MacRumor, FB, Insta, TikTok go flying past me at lightning speed. I'll be able to write a book in half a day,, respond to 5,000 FB posts, read every rumor on MacRumor and respond to at least 200 comments, as well as look up that recipe, and check my stocks. I'll be able to finally login at work, run those reports, do an analysis (thanks AppleGPT), and plan a trip overseas on what I hope is a supersonic jet. Of course, once I get outside in nature, not sure I am going to know what to do with all that time that the future M Series chip will provide.
Eh, I'll slow it down a bit and just upgrade to the M3 and I'll be good for 15 years. That will be 15 years I will enjoy the great outdoors.
If there is anyone in chip design can you comment on the time from conception to production for a modern chip. My impression is that it was 3-5 years and all these processes run in parallel- you might at one time be working on the M3, M4, and M5 or more at the same time. I think this is also true of the phones … they are working on 2-3 of them at the same time not finishing on one and moving on to the next phone.
Naw, the G5 is already available for Xbox and GameCube, so no need to wait, just jump on over.
I just checked the charts… appears to STILL be off them
I’m waiting for the M1A1. That one’s gonna be a tank!
So what you're telling us is, the engineers are doing their jobs and engineering?
Only if it comes in 14 colorsI'm going to wait for the dual socketed M8 Extreme with 2TB of RAM, 3.2TBP/s bandwidth. And Quad Afterburner 2 GPU/ML/AL/video accelerator PCI-e cards. That makes a 4090Ti look like an Apple Watch series 1. And the whole system will only use 100watts of power at full tilt.
I'd like to point out that my work led to this discovery; see this writeup I did on it.
Chip design isn't web 3(4, 5, i forget what number they're at) rapid prototyping. What you buy this month has been worked on for several years before you even heard about it.
Apple just don't publish their roadmaps. I'm sure Intel/AMD have a public document somewhere that tells you what they hope to come out with in 2028...
Apple just don't publish their roadmaps. I'm sure Intel/AMD have a public document somewhere that tells you what they hope to come out with in 2028...
These are all the unreleased models in the list, with names based on the patterns we've seen for previous chips:
T6030: M3 Pro
T6031: M3 Max
T6032: M3 Ultra
T6033: M3 ??? (Mac Pro chip?)
T6034: M3 ??? (Mac Pro chip?)
T6040: M4 Pro
T6041: M4 Max
T6042: M4 Ultra
T6050: M5 Pro
T6051: M5 Max
T6052: M5 Ultra
T8122: M3
T8130: A17
T8132: M4
T8140: A18
T8142: M5
T8150: A19
T6030: M3 Pro
T6031: M3 Max
T6032: M3 Ultra
T6033: M3 ??? (Mac Pro chip?)
T6034: M3 ??? (Mac Pro chip?)
T6040: M4 Pro
T6041: M4 Max
T6042: M4 Ultra
T6050: M5 Pro
T6051: M5 Max
T6052: M5 Ultra
T8122: M3
T8130: A17
T8132: M4
T8140: A18
T8142: M5
T8150: A19
Surprise, surprise! For me personally, I probably won't be purchasing another MacBook until my M1 MBP stops receiving updates. So, thats likely gonna be around the M8 or M9 time frame. I am maxing out even with security updates. But for desktop purposes, I might pull the trigger on either an M5 Max Mac Studio or 32 inch iMac if Apple finally relents.
nothing surprising here. Apple works years (potentially decades) in advance.
silly to think that this means A18 or M4 is ready though, as everyone’s already pointed out. by that same logic the Apple Watch would’ve been ready in 2011—Apple doesn’t just release things, they perfect them first.
silly to think that this means A18 or M4 is ready though, as everyone’s already pointed out. by that same logic the Apple Watch would’ve been ready in 2011—Apple doesn’t just release things, they perfect them first.
My source at Apple's marketing department says the M5 will be officially named Mentium.
had to look this up and genuinely cackled
never forget when a friend of mine had to put that thing in an OPEN FREEZER because it got so hot