Re:Apple Preps Next Mac Chips with Aim to Outclass Highest-E...
by eloff on Monday December 07, 2020 @10:10AM
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They didn't have to make a special chip for it though, it can be economical to offer a small volume product made of off the shelf components. It's a losing venture to do it with custom designed chips - that's extremely expensive and I doubt the market is large enough to justify it. Unless they intend to get into servers. I'm very curious to see what they do.
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Re:Apple Preps Next Mac Chips with Aim to Outclass Highest-E...
by _ph_ on Monday December 07, 2020 @12:16PM
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They have to make a server-class chip if they want to have something like the Mac Pro on ARM too. To actually go into the server business they might have to add a bit more I/O capability like Epyc vs. Threadripper, but the basic cpu should be more than up to it, if it has 32 performance cores or more. Even just a rack-mounted M1 would be interesting for many server applications and anything above more so.