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  • Apple considering 2025 debut of touchscreen MacBook Pro

    tenthousandthingstenthousandthings
    This will replace the 13" Touch Bar MBP, and fill the same spot in the marketing/pricing lineup.
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  • Apple Silicon Mac Pro in testing with macOS 13.3

    tenthousandthingstenthousandthings
    And let’s not forget the 2019 Mac Pro was announced just a year before the Apple Silicon announcement. The launch was less than six months before. It makes perfect sense that it would have been designed for Apple Silicon from the start. 
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  • Apple Silicon Mac Pro in testing with macOS 13.3

    tenthousandthingstenthousandthings
    I wonder if the rumor/news that it will be the same form factor means there’s a reason for that: so it will support current MPX modules?
    watto_cobra

  • Apple's muted 2023 hardware launches to include Mac Pro with fixed memory

    tenthousandthingstenthousandthings
    DAalseth said:
    longfang said:
    DAalseth said:
    I have a feeling that Apple will introduce an M-Series Mac Pro, but keep the Intel version around.
    Apple historically doesn’t really do the hang on to the past thing. 

    Also consider that getting rid of Intel would vastly simplify software development efforts. 
    True, but there’s Mac Pro users that need massive amounts of RAM. Amounts that Apple Silicon just doesn’t support.

    That said, I’m not a computer engineer so it may be a crazy idea;
    Would it be feasible to use two tiers of RAM? The high speed RAM built into the chip, and then a TB or more of comparatively slow conventional RAM in sticks on the MB like it has now? It would have to keep track of what needed to be kept in the extra high speed on chip space, and what could be parked on the sticks. It would be like virtual RAM does now but not to the SSD.
    Not sure how feasible this is but it was a crazy idea that just crossed my mind. 
    They could also develop something like the persistent memory Intel tried and failed to make work (Optane is dead after three generations). There is something similar in development called CXL (compute express link) which is not proprietary, as far as I know. It exists because datacenters exist, but that isn’t the only use. Intel was promoting persistent memory for workstation use as well.
    DAalseth

  • AMD trying to take on Apple Silicon with Ryzen 7040

    tenthousandthingstenthousandthings
    FWIW, the article has one fact completely wrong. The A16 is 4nm (N4). Also, the M2 (N5P) does not use the same process as the M1 (N5) series.

    And, of course, N4 is TSMC’s third-generation enhancement of 5nm. It isn’t a new node. The difference between N5 and N5P is the similar to the difference between N5P and N4. A reminder:

    A14/M1/M1+ = N5
    A15/M2 = N5P
    A16 = N4

    Finally, there are two more generations of TSMC’s 5nm process to come (N4P and N4X). It’s possible AMD is using one of these for this, so it could still be a step beyond the A16. Same goes, however, for the M2+ = likely to be N4 at the very least.

    I disagree with the idea that Apple will skip M2+ and go straight to M3+. They will still call it M2 Pro/Max/Ultra even if it is 3nm, or N4X (my original guess). It would be bonkers to sacrifice/waste the marketing resonance of these low digits just to momentarily line up with TSMC.
    tht