Apple is Discontinuing Intel-based iMac Pro

[windwhirl]

They would be retarded indeed if it wasn't chiplet, because their yields would be in the negative.
Last time I checked, no money of the world would enable you to defy cold, hard physics.

Of course, it wasn't clear in my comment, but the money thing is mostly about the core design/architecture (single thread performance with efficient upscaling to MT). They can literally throw billions into R&D to come up with a good design that could blow our minds in term of overall performance.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

It is matter of time when they develop their own GPU, and kick AMD. Even more, to increase profits, they may release it in standalone graphics card, to compete with NV, AMD and (soon) Intel

The whole point of their direction was to not be at the mercy of Intel, AMD, or NVIDIA. I doubt they would ever make a GPU and sell it outside of MacOS. That would mean supporting other platforms in software, which is something Apple has not really showed a lot of interest and dedication in.

 

[Hardware Geek]

I imagine many people gonna laugh and seethe but I honestly can't wait for Apple to smoke the hell out of competition performance-wise. They could compete in many tasks against higher-end mobile chips with M1 constrained by laughable MBAir cooling solution, can't see why they wouldn't be able to scale it all the way up. And you bet that they'll push partner devs hard to optimize for their stuff. Definitely the most exciting thing in chips since AMD managed to start climbing back from abyss with Zen, probably even better than that.

I'm quite hopeful apple moving to arm will be beneficial to the entire computer industry. Windows on arm could be great with the right processors. AMD was rumored to be working on an arm chip a while back and I'd love to see a successor to that project.

 

[IceShroom]

So?

Less transistor efficient design will create a another Rocket Lake.