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TSMC 7nm is looking great. Either 60% lower power at the same performance, or 40% added clock speed overhead. Excited for it with Zen+ and Navi on the PS5 as well. 5-7x the CPU performance and 11-14tflops on the GPU is my guess, looking at Ryzen + IPC and clock speed (assuming 3GHz with the lowered power of 7nm). 

It's hard for me to believe following this space most of my life, but we're upon the convergence with Intel foundries. Even though the naming is still whack, 7nm brings them in line with Intel 10nm.  By 2020 it should be even more even, which bodes well for an ARM Apple in house Macbook switch...

I thought we all somewhat knew this, Marzipan being more to reduce dev work of making both an iOS and Mac app, not cram them together. And perhaps A series processors will be in 2020+ macs, but that doesn't mean iOS. 

I'm good this way. Rather the powerful A series in a clamshell then trying to make macOS on a tablet. 

"Throughout, the idea of modularity was omnipresent. An iMac Pro with two iPad Pros hooked up to it allows for direct control, shortcuts and live access to the Logic manual all while you’re mixing a song on the main device. "

Uh wait, you can do that? If not...Why not?! I always wanted tighter integration to use iPads to make Macs better. 

So fully 6 years between them by 2019, that's crazy to think of the gap left. That a very long time in silicon terms.

The "pro workflow team" is encouraging. I'm hoping for myself it allows a lot of min/maxing, not fixed to relatively high end hardware on all parts like the iMac Pro. I need a lot of CPU for data science, but a GPU goes entirely unused, so I wouldn't need Navi Pro with HBM2 adding to the cost. 

I'm curious what becomes of their dedicated GPU models. Is this just to replace the CPU, or will they take the whole banana with their now fully custom GPU?