Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score

Re:Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score by Closi on Thursday October 21, 2021 @08:30AM (#28943441)

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.

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Re:Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score by sudosysgen on Thursday October 21, 2021 @10:11AM (#28944663)

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.

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