After starting with a few ARM hearts in his laptops, Apple would intend to beef up its game from the first months of next year. According to sources of Bloomberg, Cupertino has reportedly put competitive processors to the test in its labs in recent weeks. Processors full of CPU and GPU cores.
Our American colleagues talk about the puces Apple Silicon with 32 hearts which could quite come to take place in a machine of work and creation, like a future iteration of the Mac Pro. Today, this all-aluminum-alloy monster accommodates, in its highest-end version, a 28-core Intel Xeon processor as well as large graphics cards to ensure its task. Of all this, there would be no question of it by 2022 … But Apple will pass the second from 2021.
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Up to 16 cores in Apple Silicon chips in 2021
In the medium term, Bloomberg sources suggest the arrival of processors equipped with 8, 12 or 16 high performance cores (+ 4 cores « high efficiency» or more economical) and many more GPU units than the current M1. All these SoCs (System-on-Chip) could be embedded in the most powerful MacBook Pros but, also, in Apple’s all-in-ones, the iMac.
Macs that could be announced during the first quarter – for the 8 and 12-core versions, and in the fall for the more muscular versions, probably for the refresh of MacBook Pro 16 which did not take place this year.
Apple, independent on the CPU and GPU by 2022?
The sources also mention that Apple would be testing 3D solutions in parallel with its CPU chips. This is to ensure that the SoC can work with additional computing units, specialized in 3D processing or able to support the CPU and GPU units embedded in a main SoC. They would probably be housed on another piece of silicon, and would benefit from a direct connection with the main Apple Silicon. The number mentioned could climb to … 128 GPU computing units.
Of course, they would be clocked at high frequency and undoubtedly supported by dedicated video memory and not unified as on the M1.
Apple could thus do without AMD Pro cards by 2022? Perhaps. It is in any case in these waters that the next Mac Pro could tumble according to people familiar with the matter.
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Source : Bloomberg
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