Their new Xeons have HBM in the package. It's even possible to build a workable workstation without any DRAM slots with those (provided you can get rid of 300W of heat but, for a workstation, using all cores at full speed should be a relatively rare occurrence).

> using all cores at full speed should be a relatively rare occurrence

Huh? Sustained all-core load is why I have a workstation in the first place, it's for anything that would be annoying to run on my laptop. I'm sure different people have different workloads, but I don't think I'm an outlier here.

> Huh? Sustained all-core load is why I have a workstation in the first place

At least mine spends most of the time waiting for my keystrokes. It does do background tasks, of course, and some heavy lifting sometimes (when I have to wait for them instead of the other way around) but it doesn't spend the day doing the heavy lifting because that'd make the machine much less responsive (and much noisier).

OTOH, if I had a 56-core 112-thread monster, it'd probably be perfectly fine to do the heavy lifting AND the interactive work at the same time. Worse case scenario would need to set core affinity so that the heavy lifting doesn't step over the cores running my GUI.

Apple is not shipping any chiplet designs. Its ordinary POP ram and a ton of marketing.