Too bad the $1000 XDR display stand doesn't have any Intel chips to be removed...
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Bloomberg: Apple Working on Next-Gen Apple Silicon Chips for MacBook Pro, iMacs, and Mac Pro Due to Launch Next Year
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sooooo glad I've held off on a new Macbook since my 2015 15" MBP died almost 3 years ago. Couldn't stomach the prices of the Macbooks vs. Windows machines at the time and bought the newly intro'd Huawei Matebook X Pro.
It's an awesome laptop, and I've even done the Hackintosh thing on it, but I'm looking forward to 2021 and buying a M1X/M2 powered new-design 14" MacBook Pro.
It's an awesome laptop, and I've even done the Hackintosh thing on it, but I'm looking forward to 2021 and buying a M1X/M2 powered new-design 14" MacBook Pro.
It seems except for memory Apple has been putting more stuff on a SoC for example the A14 has all the coprocessors that were once separated on earlier iOS devices. Do you think they might reverse the trend and break out the GPU? I feel that GPU integration on Apple’s A series chips has been marketed as an advantage not as something lesser to a discrete GPU.
I think efficiency cores would still be needed. This is why Intel CPUs are so power hungry for even the smallest tasks. My iMac 2019 core i9 spins up its fans for the smallest of tasks. While efficiency cores could be used.
Can we please just get a “Big Air”? You know, a 15” or 16” display with very narrow bezels (like the XPS15), an M1 chip or greater, 16 GB RAM and a 1TB SSD in a minimal body? THAT would tickly my “buy bone”...
Ok but are we getting one last intel model, do not care about M-Chips at all right now
I tend to agree. The real technological disruptions here are architectural and thermal efficiency. Adding more low or high efficiency processing cores or moving to a smaller processor process will likely be evolutionary, not, so much, revolutionary. What they have now will clearly help them break out of the niche market status that they have been mired in the last several decades. It will be interesting to see how or if they can leverage this tech to overwhelm the Intel status before their competition can wake up and then catch up.
Sure, especially as the GPU can be efficiently tailored and tightly coupled to Apple's CPUs.
"Apple would begin designing graphics cards that could also be used in the other 90% of the PC market held by Windows machines."
Why would Apple want to do that? That's not their core business and would be a huge distraction.
And this breaking news just in: Water, it turns out, is wet.
Obvious rumor is obvious.
Apple owns both the ball and the field, and the opposing team is sitting on the ground 50 yards back, tying their shoes. Of course Apple’s working on new improved processors.
Obvious rumor is obvious.
Apple owns both the ball and the field, and the opposing team is sitting on the ground 50 yards back, tying their shoes. Of course Apple’s working on new improved processors.
Good thing that we can celebrate the things that Apple does right, criticise the things that they do wrong and ridicule the things they do that are beneath contempt...
I mean, imagine if one group of people decided to worship Apple and unconditionally defend everything they did, while another group just unthinkingly criticised everything. You'd have an internet full of people being rude and disrespectful...
It's obvious to most of us who read this forum, but perhaps not obvious to most potential users. My experience with the M1 so far has been outstanding, although I am a little unhappy with menubar icons moving around each time I log out. The M1 has run so cool I can't tell if my Mini is on just by touching it - the case always feels cold, not at all like my last one.
This is pretty confused comment.
- It is not about who is smarter.
- Apple is not making CPUs for Windows machines. They're not going to make GPU's for Windows machines.
- Yes Apple is going to make GPU's that are part of their Apple Silicon architecture that are better than anything else for Macs.
They also gave data like core count, dates, etc.This comes as a surprise to, who exactly?
Apple has just released their first Apple Silicone Macs, the lower end of the range. They have already announced the complete transition to their own in-house designed, Apple Silicon chips for the entire Mac line-up, with a two year timeframe.
And according to their ‘sources’, some secretive, industry insider no doubt. Apple are working on more of these chips?
Seriously? Sources? FFS, they could have asked me and I’d have been able to tell them that
A 32 core chip like this would simply change the industry forever. I imagine it being excessively lucrative for apple once they make the new Mac Pro that can handle multiple 8k streams at once. At some point we are really just going ronhave to ask ourselves when enough is enough lol. I’m wondering when they’ll up their GPU support. In today’s age any gaming title would run fine here.
Just to add something, GPU core counts are all counted differently and meaningless across architectures. An Apple GPU core is 128 ALUs, say an Intel one is 8.
Seeing what they did with the 8C M1, the prospect of a 128 core Apple GPU is amazingly tantalizing, that's 16,384 unified shaders.
Seeing what they did with the 8C M1, the prospect of a 128 core Apple GPU is amazingly tantalizing, that's 16,384 unified shaders.
You can save $800 by using the VESA mount like any other professional.
Hyper threading is by my understanding because we have instructions to spare. ARM is deliberately on a simple instruction set so one core to one thread makes a lot of sense.
With a 630 entry deep reorder buffer per core, their strategy is more to just not have those gaps in execution from one thread, which is what hyperthreading tries to fill in. It's not an eventual evolution of a core to get to SMT, it's a fix for gaps in execution.