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Re:Apple Silicon M1: A Developer's Perspective by michaelmrose on Saturday November 28, 2020 @03:07PM (#25240096)
I wonder if they will simply provide a motherboard with more cpu slots for M1 v2 for higher end machines like iMac/iMac Pro/Mac Pro.
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Re:Apple Silicon M1: A Developer's Perspective by glangdale on Sunday November 29, 2020 @01:33AM (#25243370)
It seems unlikely. There's a lot of extra complexity with multi-socket and there's no actual reason for them to do this. I'm not a CPU designer but they might do the equivalent of what you said with a chiplet design like AMD (Intel also has announced plans to eventually get to chiplets).
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Re:Apple Silicon M1: A Developer's Perspective by potemkinhr on Saturday November 28, 2020 @05:45PM (#25241194)
The ages old AMD philosophy, shovel more cores at it? With such low TDP it might work
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