I’m with you in the spirit of your post-show. However 9 Supreme Court justices over-rule in this case. Which for all visible purposes it would appear Long Island is an island. It has legally been clarified as and deemed a peninsula.

The Reason Long Island Isn't Considered an Island

The peninsula just happens to have a little water between it and the mainland.

Mental Floss (www.mentalfloss.com)

Just a moment...

(supreme.justia.com)

I’ve always thought that “Long Island” was also fairly descriptive.

@siracusa@mastodon.socia,

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I'll be interested to see if they go down a similar route to amd of having chiplets on "legacy" processes for tasks that wouldn't benefit from miniaturisation (like I/O), while keeping the remaining CPU and GPU functions on the bleeding edge, or if they will stick to monolithic chiplets.

Anyway, I think Apple's trajectory is good, so the M6, M7, and M8 should be fine.

I do posit they ran into the issues with their monolithic design prior to the Mac Pro: their ultra fusion interconnector meant they got some of the disadvantages of chiplets without the yield & process benefits of true chiplets.

Beyond latency concerns, this doesn't solve the Thunderbolt bandwidth problem (being 1/4 of max PCIe slot bandwidth).

What I think Apple needs to do is:

- Add "bonded multiple cable connections" to the Thunderbolt spec to allow 2-4 Thunderbolt cables between a Mac and a PCIe card slot chassis.

- Then ship such a chassis for $1999

Apple's monolithic designs made sense, and scaled up to well to the Max.

With the M5 Pro/Max, Apple is now on heterogenous chiplets, but Apple's not scaling multiples of them (I think it is just a CPU die and a GPU die).

We don't know how they'll scale up to Ultra (or even Quadra... my preferred term), without designing NEW chiplets.

With the M7 and M8 we'll see if Apple gets to multiple CPU dies and multiple GPU dies to allow true efficient scaling.

Additionally, school ITs are not encouraging, per se, but they are making it easier for students to bring their own devices. Hot swapping because you left yours at home isn’t an issue: you just get a crappy Lenova for the day. But your MacBook can get into all of the school stuff relatively quickly

AMD has been ruining Intel in the PC chip performance at all levels of the CPU industry in part *because* they chose chiplets as their design paradigm.

They have released in the last two years a couple of white papers that may be of interest:

Chiplet discussion:
https://www.amd.com/content/dam/amd/en/documents/solutions/technologies/chiplet-architecture-white-paper.pdf

GPUs using chiplets:
https://www.amd.com/content/dam/amd/en/documents/instinct-tech-docs/white-papers/amd-cdna-4-architecture-whitepaper.pdf

@siracusa Australia is girt by sea and is therefore an island....and a country, and a continent. They're not mutually exclusive.

The tradeoff is: a 16-lane PCIe card always has the potential for 4x the bandwidth as ThunderBolt (which has traditionally using only 4-lanes of PCIe).

I'm sure there are lots (a few hundred?) of niche users which Apple is kicking off the platform, who use:
- high end networking;
- high end video / audio;
- high end storage;
- who knows what other shockingly small niches out there.

I'm sure Apple's making the right business choice.

While it is a complicated process and going through "Recovery" using a 2nd Mac, all desktop Macs do support "upgradable" storage.

John was even considering doing it for his next Mac, wasn't he?

* this is my name for the hex ball grid thing that was used with a mere two products, possibly the shortest aesthetic statement in Apple history?

This will never happen, but I’d love to see a Mac Studio with a PCIE receptacle on the bottom that could connect into a card enclosure with a widdle interface poking out of the top.

[one hour later]
@marcoarment “I will bet you five dollars that if Open AI—”

s “I don’t need five dollars”

well which is it??

this year’s WWDC shirt is gonna be a banger I can't wait