Re:Apple M3 Ultra
by hinkley on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @02:14PM
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TB 5 seems like the sort of thing you could 'slap on' to a beefy enough chip.
Or the sort of thing you put onto a successor when you had your fingers crossed that the spec and hardware would finalize in time for your product launch but the fucking committee went into paralysis again at the last moment and now your product has to ship 4 months before you can put TB 5 hardware on shelves. So you put your TB4 circuitry on a chip that has the bandwidth to handle TB5 and you wait for the sequel.
Re:Apple M3 Ultra
by hinkley on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @06:16PM
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The world is full of features that didn't make the cutoff for launch date. I believe there's one or two of these publicly known in Apple's history, but it's an old tale.
Or the sort of thing you put onto a successor when you had your fingers crossed that the spec and hardware would finalize in time for your product launch but the fucking committee went into paralysis again at the last moment and now your product has to ship 4 months before you can put TB 5 hardware on shelves. So you put your TB4 circuitry on a chip that has the bandwidth to handle TB5 and you wait for the sequel.