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Apple's rumored M7 Ultra targets 1.5TB and Blackwell-class AI performance

25 points by rbanffy

by eigenspace

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It's pretty interesting that Apple was so quick to get to industry-leading status on their CPUs, but their GPUs are still in a state where they won't match Nvidia's GPUs from 2024 until at least next year, and will need a significantly bigger chip to do so.
Similar story with Qualcomm but to a lesser degree (both on the CPU and GPU side). I wonder why that is.
Lack of priority? Legitimately harder problem to solve? Experience from mobile scaling to desktop differently than CPU experience?

by rbanffy

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The CPU/NPU/GPU part is probably coming, but the 1.5TB of RAM might be delayed a bit. More interesting footnotes are the server chips: is the MacPro making a comeback?

by nozzlegear

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"Blackwell-class AI" sounds like one of those cool sounding nonsense terms out of a military sci-fi book.

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by gnabgib

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by segmondy

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sure, i'll believe it when i see it. all i see from the article is a marketing campaign for folks to buy their stock. we don't even have the m5 we wanted, and we are talking about m7 and m8s?

by bob1029

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