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Re:M1 Ultra About 3x Bigger Than AMD's Ryzen CPUs by Applejinx on Sunday March 20, 2022 @06:01PM (#30747146)
That would be an interesting approach: don't know if it's what they're doing, but if they're like 'make M1 Ultras predominantly, but then if they break you're making M1 Max with an attached bit that has to be trimmed off', that's pretty ingenious.
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Re:M1 Ultra About 3x Bigger Than AMD's Ryzen CPUs by grishka on Sunday March 20, 2022 @06:49PM (#30747575)
I think I've seen a picture of a decapped M1 Max and it had this extra part on the side that never appeared in Apple renders. It was back then when this speculation of it having multiprocessor interconnect started. It was then also confirmed by Asahi Linux people from the software side of things.

So no, they don't even bother to trim it off.

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