> They’re telegraphing the use case for future SOCs.

Can someone explain what that means?

Telegraphing means to give away away a message, inadvertently or not.

While the M2 doesn’t include external GPU support, I think the M3 Mac Pro will in order to continue justifying the astronomical price.

Otherwise, Apple would have gone through an awful lot of trouble to design a new motherboard with PCIe slots for an otherwise limited-use case.

In releasing an M2 Mac Pro, Apple is trying to balance a consistent message regarding the ARM transition and customer expectations, but also the hiccups and limited experience of developing desktop CPUs. There may be some silicon bug or silicon-level design oversight in the M2 preventing use of an external GPU.

Discrete GPU support is supposed to be there, but not quite ready.

I’ll take the under on that.

Thanks. So by "for future SOCs" they meant future iterations of Apple Silicon. And you think the use case the gp means is GPU support? I'm not sure I agree thats what they meant.

I was the GP. I don’t know what else to call the M-series chips :)