The Apple Silicon Mac Pro may follow the lead of the Mac Studio’s M1 Ultra, a rumor claims, by effectively combining two M1 Ultra chips into a single 40-core SoC.
Apple’s “Peek Performance” event included a brief tease for a Mac Pro using Apple Silicon, opening the door to speculation about the inbound update. In one rumor, it is said that Apple will go one stage further than it did with the Mac Studio in reusing its existing chips in new ways.
For the Mac Studio, Apple introduced the M1 Ultra, a chip that connected together two M1 Max chips with a die-to-die interconnect called UltraFusion. The concept effectively makes two chips work as one singular powerful version, complete with 20 CPU cores, a 64-core GPU, and 32 Neural Engine cores.
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