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M5 Apple Silicon Chip Reportedly Enters Mass Production

gphome said:
M5 chips being on 3nm says a complete skip to me, either go for a cheaper M3/M4 based system that is basically the same generation, or wait until M6 on 2nm
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So, eventual performance increase since M3 is null because you know, same marketed transistor density?
 
cwwilson said:
I applaud Apple and TSMC for continuing to innovate and make faster and more efficient chipsets but man I do wonder... How much power does someone really need? I don't do anything hardcore on my Macs and I still think the M1 and M2 Airs I have are still plenty fast for anything I'll ever do with them. The leaps and bounds in performance they've made since then have left mine in the dust and I just don't feel like playing catch up anymore lol.
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Software will always be expanded to take advantage of the chip improvements!
 
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robinp said:
This doesn’t seem to make sense
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Maybe they choose it because it's the lowest risk product?

When Apple was just buying parts from Intel, a lot of those parts had already been mass produced and tested in other products from other companies so Apple was reasonably sure that failure rates were sufficiently low.

Now that Apple makes their own CPUs, they don't have a good way of knowing that no defects exist that cause 1% to fail after a year or something. So they pick a product line where such a failure would be easiest to deal with. As a cheaper product, they could just give a replacement. Might be fairly easy to repair. And full refunds might not be so expensive.

IDK, I'm just making stuff up.
 
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jeffpeng said:
5) M5 debuting on the iPad Pro? Nah. They pulled their stunt with that one. They had a reason to do that with M4, but now there really are other priorities, especially considering the iPad Pro is not selling as great as they had hoped. And "New chip, same evertything!" won't change that.
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Spoken like someone who doesn't know how this works. If anything, given how relatively low yields have become in general over the past couple of generations and how expensive this production is, the iPad Pro's low sale numbers would be a reason to give it the M5 first.
 
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Ugh... why start with the iPad Pro again ?
This is the least interesting device for such a power chip.
I mean, I still have the A12Z, and I don't see the need for more power yet...
 
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Does someone on the iPad Pro team have naked photos of Tim Cook?

I can never understand why they keep spec bumping something that needs absolutely no more processing power

It’s already wildly overpowered for what it does and given its software constraints
 
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kk1ro said:
Will probably hold onto my M1 Max MBP until the M6 Max comes out. The M1 Max is still such a beast that I really need an outrageous generational leap in performance to even consider upgrading.
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This is me. M1 Max MBP. 64GB RAM. It's so freaking powerful. Never comes close to breaking a sweat no matter what I throw at it.

I have a feeling that it's going to be other stuff - screen quality (which is already great), even wilder ability to drive external monitors at insane resolutions - connectivity maybe, maybe new slightly lighter form factor, not even sure what - that'll make me want to update, rather than "faster chip."
 
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