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cpsro said: ApplePoor said: There is also an iPhone 15 Pro series CPU processor change mid year which might be a negative for the early adopters. There is or will be a change to the process used by TSMC to produce the A17 Bionic? W…
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A note on the Fusion, Bionic, and now Pro labels for the A-series. A10 Fusion was the first to have a label, as it was the first A-series SoC to have two types of cores, combining two high-performance cores with two energy-efficiency cores. Thus, "…
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A spec bump (M1 to M2) for the iPad Air isn't a "new iPad model" -- so this doesn't contradict the likelihood that iMac and iPad Air will both get the M2, via press release, in October. The iMac jumping directly to M3 never made sense, and contradi…
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tmay said: 9secondkox2 said: One thing that puzzles me… tsmc has been producing 90,000 - 100,000 wafers per month for a while now, so that’s going to be around 50,000,000 or more 3nm SOCs per month. And somehow that’s not enough? Eve…
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charlesn said: The M3 MBA 13" rumor never made any sense. It would be like Apple upgrading the MBP 14" to a new processor but not the 16". My guess--not that Tim Cook is calling me with his plans--is that the both MBA models will get an M3 up…
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9secondkox2 said: One thing that puzzles me… tsmc has been producing 90,000 - 100,000 wafers per month for a while now, so that’s going to be around 50,000,000 or more 3nm SOCs per month. And somehow that’s not enough? Even if you factor in…
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nubus said: iPad Air could be a candidate for a silent update. Return it to an A-series processor (A16 or A17), reduce pricing (like what happened to MacBook Air 13"), and Apple is set for Christmas. But M3... TSMC 2nd generation 3nm is simpl…
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A press-release launch of the M3 itself would, however, be unprecedented. I don’t think you’re suggesting that…
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Well put. Quality bloviation, thank you. While it would still need to be accompanied by the commitments and efforts you mention, there is a way to answer the question posed by Ternus. He’s right that there’s no optimal way to integrate AMD’s curren…
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The October event will be fun. M3 iPad Pro, then M3 iPad Air... Then M3 iMac 24"... I think all of the above are more than likely. I don't have an opinion about the MacBooks. Maybe just the 13" Pro -- a redesign of that would mark the true end of …
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I think Apple has gotten itself into marketing trouble. Those marketing handlers who appear with the Apple engineers when they do interviews should be spending less time worrying about what John Ternus or Anand Shimpi might say and more time develop…
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Same question as Ellie who posted this on Double-Struck X, if 6012 is M1 Ultra and 6022 is M2 Ultra, then 6032 is M3 Ultra, but what are 6033 and 6034? I think it's possible there is a twist coming as a result of the failure of the 4x Max (4C "Extr…
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cpsro said: The biggest fail of all with the 2023 Mac Pro is it doesn’t have enough PCIE lanes to support all of its slots. Add one 16x card and you’ll be fine, but add a second and they each get only 8x. [...] This comment (from page one)…
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The real question is will Apple produce a high-end version of this Mac Pro? Right now, the only available version is entry-level, with silicon that overlaps with the high-end Mac Studio. There is no high-end Mac Pro. The silicon would have to go be…
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Marvin said: AppleInsider said:The M3 Pro's base configuration is anticipated to have 12 CPU cores, again split evenly between performance and efficiency cores, and an 18-core GPU. The top configuration will use add two more performance c…
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This makes perfect sense. Apple has always been on the front edge of TSMC’s processes, from the A8 (iPhone 6, first-generation 20nm) on. There was an experiment with dual-sourcing for the A9 (iPhone 6S) using an established Samsung process alongside…
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This hybrid approach is the same idea as the Emerson Collective, which was something both of his parents conceived. It’s just that this is focused on a single mission. I’m not sure that working at your own family’s philanthropic organization counts…
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programmer said: I think the odds of a significant GPU revision are more likely in M3 than you think, primarily because it was initially aimed to happen in the M2 generation but wasn't ready in time. They've had quite a long time to work on …
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CORRECTION Marvin, in the thread on Malcolm's front-page article about what can be surmised about M3 (as of July 2023), identified some new information: A16 is now thought to be TSMC N4P (5nm fourth generation), and not N4 (5nm third generation) as…
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Calamander said: canukstorm said: How do you know they reached out to Gurman and instead Gurman isn't just guessing? Gurman is Apple's inofficial - official intentional leaks channel. These leaks build excitement while not prom…