Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model

Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by fggg444 on Friday April 23, 2021 @12:32AM (#26911018)

Can't they just stick a few dozen M1s in a box and call it a Mac Pro to scale up that way?

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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by wmf on Friday April 23, 2021 @01:25AM (#26911253)

No, the M1 lacks any (usable) way to connect to other M1s.

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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by thitcanh on Friday April 23, 2021 @05:05AM (#26912622)

For now?

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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by kingosticks on Friday April 23, 2021 @06:31AM (#26913161)

Yes and they need to go away and design a very different chip. It's not trivial. x86 vendors already have chips like this.

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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by malf on Friday April 23, 2021 @06:17AM (#26913059)

Did you just “imagine a beowulf cluster of those”?

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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by danaris on Friday April 23, 2021 @10:54AM (#26915337)

Thanks, that takes me back ^_^

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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by michael1999 on Friday April 23, 2021 @12:33PM (#26916445)

The return of NUMA!

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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by wmf on Friday April 23, 2021 @01:51PM (#26917288)

The year of NUMA on the desktop.

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