Well analysts have estimated the cost of the M1 at $40 to $50 per chip, so even if they double the size of the chip which quadruples the cost, that would still be completely feasible for the Mac Pro which retails at c$5,000+
Even if the SOC was $500 cost price they would still have plenty of room to pay for everything else and hit the $5k price point.
I mean, they could even use separate highly integrated chips to get that number of cores too, although I suspect they will want to do it on a single chip assuming cooling is OK.
Re:Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score
by sudosysgen on Thursday October 21, 2021 @10:11AM
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This wouldn't be doubling the size of the M1, it would be quadrupling the size of the M1 Max, so more like 1500$ for the chip.
What you're talking about at the end is chiplets and it takes a lot of work to get it to operate, just ask AMD.
Simply quadrupling the die isn't really feasible, the price increases exponentially.