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Why do people think the only coprocessors Apple will ever build into the M series have to do with image processing?  Slap in a Blender designed GPU ray tracing coprocessor, toss on 96 Gb of shared RAM, launch the 3nm process and WOW!

It’s also likely that Apple sensed that Intel was a subsidiary of Microsoft, and their needs came first. “What do we have to lose?”,Apple thought as they took the M1 gamble. 

I think people are making a fundamental mistake thinking events at Apple are disjoint. I think everything that has happened in the last year focuses on the most non-Apple event, Apple gave a large donation to Blender, and sent engineers. Try that again, Apple sent engineers to Blender.  Everything revolves around this action. 

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The why of the delay is easy, the work of Apple engineers at Blender was late.  The new M2 3nm will have hardware Ray tracing developed along with Blender. Games. Games are coming!