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tht said:

Will be interesting to see how many PCIe slots it will have and whether it will support PCIe GPUs, MPX modules, and Apple Silicon in an MPX module.

Hopefully the Extreme version comes out. Definitely want to see how they bridge it all together. Like I said in prior comments, priority 1 is to do better on getting GPU performance to scale with cores. The M2 and A16 GPU have some nice performance increases, but the big problem is how well it will scale with 20, 40, 80 cores.

https://www.servethehome.com/arm-neoverse-v2-cores-launched-for-nvidia-grace-and-cxl-2-0-pcie-gen5-cpus/

ARM have support for new PCIe5.0 - CXL2.0 and a die to die interconnect launching this year firstly in an Nvidia server chip but expanding across the year. Given Apples ARM licence they would be aware of these efforts and could in theory use any or all parts of this that make sense for them also in a chip launching this year. Assuming they's hadn't rolled their own support and it works better. 

Given MacPro chip are more server like it would seem to make sense that Apple would be waiting for these things for the MacPro. Would seem to be be a bonus if NVIDIA are in there they'd also be readying GPU's with CXL that will work with their own ARM based CPUs.

With both NVIDIA and AMD adopting CXL this year with aims to move towards consumer hardware over the next few years it would seem a good plan (to me at least) for Apple to be in there doing it as well. 

Madbum said:

ilarynx said:

Madbum said:

mikethemartian said:

Madbum said:

Be very careful there Phil. More than  Half of this country  and likely more than half of the Apple users agree with Musk and his views on Free speech .

So political statements like this is not what shareholders want to see. 

Ironically you are advising him to be weary of expressing his own free speech.

Well no, as long as he represents Apple and is beholden to shareholders, he has a duty to act in a manner that will not damage the shareholders

if he resigns, he can ran around with his pants off protesting a Twitter no problem!

While the execs and C-level personnel have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders, I'm not sure an Apple "Fellow" does, senior or otherwise. 

Regardless, a lot of companies and shareholders are learning that remaining on Twitter is a bit of a gamble these days:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2022/11/11/kari-lake-lockheed-martin-and-eli-lilly-here-are-the-companies-celebrities-and-politicians-impersonated-in-twitter-blue-chaos/?sh=6b2cb94b3871

"Half of this country... agrees with Musk"? Either you live in a country different than mine, or you need to share what you're smoking with the rest of the group. 

I think you like imagine your coastal state as America. Or did you think Biden won 140 million to 15 million? And not 80 million to 74 million? (California and New York was responsible for most of the difference) And the US senate is not 50-50 or Republicans don’t have the house?

and I say this as somebody who voted for Biden

and I will say it’s likely way more than half agree with Musk when it comes to free speech, I do and many of my friends who vote Democrat do as well.

lastly, Schiller part of the executive team so he is c-suite

Pole was seen by 126mill individual accounts only 16mill votes and Elon himself said a big bot population in the votes. 
So all claims of half are exaggerated at best. 

dewme said:

The purging of current staff is no different than when a new and usually well-heeled home buyer purchases a property that contains an existing house that many of us consider perfectly acceptable and immediately proceeds to tear the whole house down to the ground. The new owner then rebuilds a new and oftentimes much more elaborate house on the same property. Frankly, I see this scenario play out quite often, even in rural and semi-rural areas.

The rationale of course is that the new property owner values something about the property beyond the value of the original house that was sitting on the property. It can also be the case that trying to renovate the old house wasn't seen as a viable option for many reasons. The basic architecture and structure may never have fit the new owner's requirements regardless of the amount of renovation performed. Maybe the foundation was decrepit. We don't know, but the new owner knows and is really not obligated to explain their motivations or actions to any of us. It's their property and they can do with it as they please, as long as they don't violate any building codes.

The same thing must be true for Musk and Twitter. He's stripping it down to the studs. What we don't know is why and he's not going to tell us unless he wants to. Of course it sucks for all those whom he has deemed to be expendable and worthy of tossing in the roll-off dumpsters he brought in as soon as he put down the sink. At least those who've been shown to the dumpster are getting a few months of salary to bridge them over to their next career endeavor. I doubt that any prospective employers will view the cast-offs as being personally responsible for being discarded. They were in the wrong place at the wrong time but still have their skills and experience to get them into their next gig. I wish them all the best.

So ... what is Musk going to build on top of the stripped down and skeletal remains of the company that he just spent $47 billion dollars acquiring?

More importantly will anyone care what he builds. It is going to have lots of stairs he fired the accessibility team. 

DAalseth said:

retrogusto said:

It’s not hard to believe this rumor, given that iPhones already have two front cameras (infrared and regular) and USB-C will be required by law in Europe by next year. 

That’s what I was going to point out. iPhones HAVE two cameras in the front. I suspect this rumour is confusing the IR camera for FaceTime with a separate second camera for photography.

The IR camera isn't really IR its a normal camera without the IR filter so it will see the light of the dot projector. If they could use ML image processor or better cameras to allow IR filtering in software they could make both cameras broad spectrum or maybe even reduce to one for the lower end models. 

If they had a wide and near on upper end models they would not only have centre stage but could unlock the phone while it is on the desk and out wide like past the edge the edge of the keyboard. Would be good addition to always on displays. 

digitol said:

YES!!! Bezel-less and Notch free please! Make me a buyer again.

Nothing in the patent suggests notch free. Just the artist’s impression. Sure apple have a stack of other patents for that and the screen tech might be part of making screen as a camera real but that isn’t directly covered by the tech.