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Starting April 1, all a Twitter blue checkmark will mean is the user is paid
If they want to price themselves out of the market then that is capitalism in action.entropys said:I actually don’t have a problem with this.
but if they are willing to sell company and organisation verification to people who impersonate that organisation then they are either materially benefiting from fraud or running an extortionist racket.
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Possible Mac Pro 'compute module' discovered in iOS 16.4 code
Why is PCIe unlikely? You are stating that but none of the rumoured information has been anything other than speculation that looks like it is trying to drive negative sentiment. Also the two year wasn't a deadline as the direct quote is "about 2 years" which makes this feel like an attempt to also drive such negative sentiment more than speculation based on the new information. Indeed a reference of a Compute Module does suggest Apple does have the ability to move the ASi SOC off the mainboard into a pluggable object which would kind of make sense to be Apples already designed MPX. Leading to more to the inclusion of PCIe not dissimilar to current intel MAC pro more than it supports "PCIe being unlikely" Make sense that Apple have been waiting for PCIe 5.0 CXL support in ARM so 3rd parties have a more attractive target.
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Future Mac Pro may use Apple Silicon & PCI-E GPUs in parallel
When was the last time Apple went alone on such a low level system and it paid off?9secondkox2 said:
What I think is happening there is that Apple is taking the Max Ultra “Fabric” concept and applying that to an entire “logic board.” No PCI-E, no legacy stuff of any kind (outside of I/o ports). An entirely new way to connect performance modules in a lightning fast way, via a series of hardware controllers, that the OS sees as one resource and scales similarly to having all of these modules (full Mx SOCs quite possibly) actually on one die.mjtomlin said:CookItOff said:I would love to be totally wrong on this, but after thoroughly reading each patent application it looks like these are the patents for how the Ultra chip (two Max chip linked together through infinity fabric) processes graphic task in tandem, and the infinity fabric link which Apple uses to tie both MAX chips together, and has nothing to do with future multiple dGPU support by Apple.Further evidence of this is that the patent file date is for August 2021 and the Ultra chip debuted in March 2022.This doesn’t mean that Apple isn’t working on dGPUs though. And we may very well still see dGPU support come to the new AS MacPros. I just think these patent applications cover the Apple Silicon Ultra’s pair of GPUs talking to each other in tandem.
Completely agree. When the Ultra debuted people wondered how Apple was treating each "GPU". Were they seen by the kernel as 2 discrete GPUs, or were they tied together as 1 in hardware? This patent definitely alludes to this. I think the interpretation is thrown off by the use of "slot". It's easy to make the leap to "PCI slot" without any further context.
Several facts...
1. Apple is already adept at supporting multiple GPUs, be it discrete or integrated or both.
2. M-series already supports PCI-e, can't have Thunderbolt without it. (M-series Macs already support PCI breakout boxes.)
3. PCI-e is just a data bus (a peripheral component interface). It doesn't matter what you plug in on the other end as long you can interpret and manipulate the data that is sent and received (via drivers).
4. macOS is extremely capable at process dispatching. It is not at all dependent on integrated processing units of any kind.
Opinion...
1. Apple is not supporting dGPUs currently because at this early stage they're more interested in forcing all developers to adopt and optimize code for Apple's GPUs.
2. Performance wise, Apple's GPUs aren't quite where they were hoping for - yet. And until they can approach the level of performance that most 3rd party GPUs are, they're holding back support.This would blow the minds of every reviewer, critic, nerd, power user, and cynic.And it looks like it’s actually happening.Been waiting for an iMac 30+” but if the Mac Pro becomes what I think it’s going to, I’ll be owning my first Mac Pro by early 2024.
It has been awhile.
If they are going something new then it would be new thing the industry is abuzz with better still if they can contribute too.
Apple have said they will only do their own where they can do better for Mac Pro even a MacStudio they can't do better they need to open the door.
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Twitter delays new paid API launch by 'a few more days'
It adds economic cost to bots and bot armies meaning the company will materially benefit from the generally illegal activities those bots are trying to carry out.payeco said:
How does charging for API access that used to be free make the platform more open?bluefire1 said:Musk is doing what he and his engineers can to make Twitter a better, more open platform. Kudos to them.
Sorry I mean reduce bots to only those that make enough profit to justify the cost.
Oh wait both of those things.
It's good for the consumer trafficker by reducing competition for scam victims.
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New Mac Pro may not support PCI-E GPUs
Also ARM have released reference blocks for PCIe 5 and CXL 2 on top of that. Apple’s architecture license gives them access to those designs if they don’t already have their own.JoakimZiegler said:Apple Silicon has a PCIe 4.0 controller. It's used for WLAN, Bluetooth, and of course Thunderbolt, which is PCIe over a serial bus. It's impossible to have Thunderbolt without a PCIe controller. The PCIe 4.0 controller showed up on Apple's list of M1 features in the presentation. The lack of eGPU support is more than anything a driver and OS support question than anything to do with hardware.
