TechPowerUp reports that TSMC’s 2nm node will debut in 2025 with iPhone 17 Pro
As reported by btarunr at TechPowerUp.
This will also mean lower power for Macs, so that is very exciting.
As reported by btarunr at TechPowerUp.
This will also mean lower power for Macs, so that is very exciting.
A must read on Apple Silicon and why it needs less memory than intel.
From Wayne G at OWC Rocketyard.
The $3000 over the MacStudio to be able to use some PCI cards (but not video cards) just doesn’t seem worth it to me. If I had the money, sure, but I would have to be pretty loaded.
From Ben Lovejoy at 9to5Mac, the Ryzen 7840 can beat Apple’s M2 chip, says AMD, but provides no proof. Of course no benchmarks nor battery charts, and it is energy efficiency that Apple Silicon is so good with. And also which M2? The lowest?
Apple will soon be releasing touch based Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for high end iPads, but as subscriptions at $4.99 a month or $49 a year.
Logic will work on any iPad with an A12 Bionic or later and Final Cut will only work 5th or 6th gen 12.9 inch iPad Pro, 3rd or 4th gen 11 in iPad Pro or 5th generation iPad Air.
I love that Apple is finally treating the iPad as pro as other companies, but I hate that it is subscription. I would rather pay $99 for a lifetime than have a monthly fee.
The month free is great, but if I had the program I might use it, but paying monthly for it, unless i am making a living off of it. And sure it is cheap monthly, but I just don’t see any subscription that I am not making a living off of.
Jeremy Reimer has an amazing 3 part article on the history of the ARM processor. It is excellent and as in depth as all their articles tend to be.
Since all of Apple’s machines except the Intel MacPro are based on ARM this is an important history for any hard core Apple User.
Amazing that it can beat a M1 Ultra in Final Cut, though it is a bit behind in Premiere, and Geekbench. Makes me really excited for the M2 Ultra.
Honestly I was thinking about writing a post like this article, but Ben Lovejoy at 9to5Mac has beat me too it.
The recent pate of articles from Gurman and their bad news on the Mac Pro has really had me thinking. No Quad Apple Silicon means no performance boost over the Studio. No memory upgrades makes sense, but no external graphics card, means a decided lack of expansion, and a need to spend more upfront, without the possibility of later upgrades.
As for PCI Expansion, sure a video i/o card from black magic would be cheaper than external, and you could put in a fast ssd pci card, but those are damn expensive. Maybe an Apple Accelerator, but like the one in the current, you know it would be quickly added to the next chips, so why bother.
And having more options for storage, I would love that. I so miss my 4 internal slots for spinning hard drives, but more likely I see room for more proprietary Apple SSDs, which would be too expensive and likely not user upgrade-able.
The one thing no articles I have seen talk about would be more Thunderbolt ports, which would be great. I already use two Thunderbolt 4 Hubs, and still lack for ports, but is that and better cooling and maybe room for a second hard drive worth thousands more?
The answer is no. There needs to be a realistic reason for a Mac Pro to exist.
So maybe Apple waits till the M3, when they can do a quad chip design and really do an insane machine, and they go for an iMac Pro right now. I would be dissapointed, but not surprised. Mainly disappointment because I would love to move to 32 inch monitors for my next machine.
Jeff Greenburg at OWC has an article on tests they ran on an EGPU on an Intel Mac, and what it can provide.
And an EGPU will boost an older Intel mac, but of course it isn’t a new Apple Silicon Mac, so you might want to save up for that.
Sami Fathi at MacRumors has reported that TSMC has started 3nm production as of December 29th.
This will likely mean the rest of the M2 line for the MacBook and for the eventual MacPro will be 3nm which will save power and be more efficient, and of course will eventually make it’s way to the iPhone and iPad as power savings and less heat is better across the line.