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Re:Apple M3 Ultra by happyopossum on Thursday March 06, 2025 @11:30AM (#43282041)
> they specifically built this M3 Ultra for DeepSeek R1 4-bit

Which came out in what, mid January? Yeah, there's no chance Apple (or anyone) has built a new chip in the last 45 days.

Re:Apple M3 Ultra by SV_BubbleTime on Thursday March 06, 2025 @12:27PM (#43282755)
No one is saying they built a new chip.

But the decision to come to market with a 512GB sku may have changed from not making sense to “people will buy this”.

Re:Apple M3 Ultra by cyanydeez on Thursday March 06, 2025 @06:33PM (#43286102)
Dies are designed in years.

This was just a coincidence.

Re:Apple M3 Ultra by SV_BubbleTime on Friday March 07, 2025 @11:01AM (#43291243)
What part of “no one is saying they designed a new chip” is lost here?
Re:Apple M3 Ultra by cyanydeez on Friday March 07, 2025 @02:03PM (#43293145)
Sorry, non of us a fan boys trying to shape apple is great narratives
Re:Apple M3 Ultra by vaxman on Thursday March 06, 2025 @08:18PM (#43286672)
"No chance?" But it has been reported that the next generation of Apple Silicon started production a few weeks ago. Those deliveries may enable Apple to release its remaining M3 Ultra SKUs for sale to the public (because it has something Better for its internal PCC build-out).

It also may point to other devices ᯅ depending upon such new Apple Silicon arriving sooner, rather than later. (Hey, I should start a YouTube channel or religion or something. /s)

Re:Apple M3 Ultra by tempaccount420 on Monday March 10, 2025 @12:02PM (#43321981)
Don't they build these Macs just-in-time? The bandwidth doesn't change with the RAM, so surely it couldn't have been that hard to just... use higher capacity RAM modules?