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by moreira 1707 days ago
Interestingly, the M1 Max is only a 10 core (of which only 8 are high performance). I wonder what it will look like when it’s a 20-core, or even a 64-core like the Threadripper. Imagine a 64-core M1 on an iMac or Mac Pro.

We’re in for some fun times.
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spacedcowboy 1707 days ago
John Siracusa - no the chart isn't real, but maybe qualify that with "yet"...

https://twitter.com/siracusa/status/1450202454067400711

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kzrdude 1707 days ago
Hm, related to that reply https://twitter.com/lukeburrage/status/1450216654202343425

Is this a yield trick, that one is the "chopped" part of another? So they'll bin failed M1Max ones as M1Pro, if possible?

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GeekyBear 1707 days ago
Bloomberg's Gurman certainly has shown that he has reliable sources inside Apple over the years.

>Codenamed Jade 2C-Die and Jade 4C-Die, a redesigned Mac Pro is planned to come in 20 or 40 computing core variations, made up of 16 high-performance or 32 high-performance cores and four or eight high-efficiency cores. The chips would also include either 64 core or 128 core options for graphics.

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/05/18/bloomberg-mac-pro-32-hi...

So right in line with the notion of the Mac Pro getting an SOC that has the resources of either 2 or 4 M1 Pros glued together.

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