Is Apple having some trouble scaling up Apple Silicon?

[Bodhitree]

In the ‘unleashed’ event, Tim Cook slipped in a mention that the two-year transition period for Apple Silicon should be read as from the release date of M1, and not from the date of the announcement of the transition earlier in 2020. Is this a sign that Apple’s chip design team needs the extra time?

Certainly ideas of massively multi-core cpu designs in the trend of the ARM Neoverse have not yet materialised, and may never materialise because of constraints on chip size. It should be very interesting to see next years October event which will complete the transition with presumeably a Mac Pro and a chip for it.

 

[Sullivan0930]

chip shortages across the globe.

also they released a chip, and double/tripled the performance a year later. they are doing better than anyone expected imo.

 

[TiggrToo]

In the ‘unleashed’ event, Tim Cook slipped in a mention that the two-year transition period for Apple Silicon should be read as from the release date of M1, and not from the date of the announcement of the transition earlier in 2020. Is this a sign that Apple’s chip design team needs the extra time?

Certainly ideas of massively multi-core cpu designs in the trend of the ARM Neoverse have not yet materialised, and may never materialise because of constraints on chip size. It should be very interesting to see next years October event which will complete the transition with presumeably a Mac Pro and a chip for it.

I don’t doubt that there’s not one single industry that’s not been negatively affected by the pandemic. Apple for sure are not immune to it.

These are not normal times. However the M1 Pro and Max chips show the huge advancement in the M series in just one year. I’d not be surprised to see the lineup completed by this time next year with the MacPro being outfitted with M series chips. That would be 2 years from announcement.