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Re:The Mac Pro’s biggest problem is the MacBook by fragmede on Thursday June 29, 2023 @04:29AM (#36517859)
That implies that the yields were off for the M2 SuperMax or M3 or whatever, so they couldn't make enough of them to sell a product.
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Re:The Mac Pro’s biggest problem is the MacBook by PedroBatista on Thursday June 29, 2023 @06:01AM (#36518451)
Not necessarily, the yields could be OK but the performance bump of the real silicon didn’t materialize.
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Re:The Mac Pro’s biggest problem is the MacBook by Spooky23 on Thursday June 29, 2023 @08:20AM (#36519431)
Maybe - they may not have been able to package it. Workloads are usually CPU bound or memory bound. If I need 200 cores to get a TB of memory, that’s a waste of money.

Intel segmented their products because they had the similar constraints. There’s a mondo-expensive 8 core 4 GHz+ part, and a part with lots of cores at half the speed. In Intels case, the memory is of course not part of the SoC.

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