Imagine a new Mac Pro with Apple having another M1 trick up its sleeve

[Macusercom]

I mean the interconnect for the M1 Ultra was quite a surprise as the M1 Max has been around for months now and nobody seemed to notice it or closely inspect the M1 Max chip. Imagine Apple pulling out another M1 trick and reveal it has 2 interconnects per chip with something like the M1 Ultra Max.

Imagine up to 40 CPU cores, 128 GPU cores, 64 neural engine cores as well as 128 GB RAM and 2 TB storage at the stock configuration. Given that Apple definitely wants to streamline its chips and stacking them together would benefit that, I can imagine a Mac Pro's chip looking like that as I don't think a Mac Pro will ever feature a swapable chip again.

I just created the concept of a 4x M1 Max called the "M1 Ultra Max". I wish this will become a reality. What do you guys think?

 

[Dozer_Zaibatsu]

It's a perfectly fine idea if the cores can efficiently multiply like that. Apple has an incredibly profitable efficiency path here, basically stamping out the same chip on a three-year cycle and connecting it in different ways to multiply its strengths. If you could stitch together four this way and get complementary returns, (rather than diminishing ones) for the cost, it'd be an interesting super computer.

I worked at a University where our resident super computer which briefly was the world's most powerful was a series of Nvidia cards all connected. When taking a tour, I asked how many frames it could get in Crysis. They weren't amused.

 

[slainbabyyc]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1502675792886697985

 

[rhett7660]

Could you imagine if they do something like this and then, give the option of putting two of them in the MP! I mean we can dream right!