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Re:Alder Lake Core i9 processor is faster than the M1 Max by kmeisthax on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @11:00PM (#30096035)
M1 Max has a cross-die interconnect they photoshopped out of the marketing die shots, so I fully expect Apple to ship dual-Max configs on the Pro.

(Also, RIP one of the most tinkerer-friendly Mac configs in a very long time.)

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Re:Alder Lake Core i9 processor is faster than the M1 Max by marcan_42 on Thursday January 27, 2022 @01:14AM (#30096849)
The internal design is 2-die max, so that'll be a somewhat puny Pro by Mac Pro standards. Maybe a Mac Mini Pro?

I expect them to come up with something much crazier with a newer design, perhaps in the M2 generation. Doesn't mean much, but the IRQ controller architecture and driver in these machines claim to scale to 8 dies, even though the existing implementation in the M1 Max is sized for 2. That's no guarantee they're looking at a product like that, but they might be.

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