John Siracusa

So Johannes Schuster wrote and is quoting Anand Shimpi, who is on platform architecture at Apple.

Apple's new performance core is a completely custom-designed microarchitecture, so it differs significantly from both the super core and the efficiency core.

Furthermore, it manages to surpass the efficiency of the efficiency core.

All right, and then Doug Brooks, who is Mac Product Marketing, explained that while the chips do support PCIe 5, they are actually custom-designed controllers.

And then from the write-up on 9to5Mac, we were interested in whether two chips with the Fusion architecture could be combined using UltraFusion to create a single system on a chip consisting of four dies.

That would then be the M5 Ultra, but Apple traditionally doesn't talk about upcoming products.

Quote, at the moment, we have only announced the M5 Pro and M5 Max, was all Shimpy would say.

That's such Apple.

Really, John, are you now?

I am.

We'll get to it.

All Pro and Max chips differ in the number of GPU cores, memory bandwidth, and maximum addressable RAM.

We got the impression that Apple wanted to gain experience in experimenting with the core count.

Quote, we're not trying to experiment and figure things out that way, explained Shimpy.

Ultimately, we're not commercial semiconductor manufacturers.

We develop chips specifically for a particular product generation.

All right, let's talk ubiquity.

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