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Re:Apple M3 Ultra by agloe_dreams on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @10:23AM (#43267747)
My understanding was that Apple wanted to figure out how to build systems with multi-SOCs to replace the Ultra chips. The way it is currently done means that the Max chips need to be designed around the interconnect. Theoretically speaking, a multi-SOC setup could also scale beyond two chips and into a wider set of products.
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Re:Apple M3 Ultra by aurareturn on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @01:37PM (#43270455)
I'm not sure if multi-SoC is possible because having 2 GPUs together such that the OS sees it as one big GPU is not very possible if the SoCs are separated.
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Re:Apple M3 Ultra by rbanffy on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @01:53PM (#43270642)
Ultra is already two big M3 chips coupled through an interposer. Apple is curiously not going the way of chiplets like the big CPU crowd is.
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