Yes, that's the M1X rumor, but that isn't going to be enough to compete with high-end CPUs in iMac and Mac Pros. For those, we have the 32-core rumor (but that is a massive die).
And doubling the M1-GPU will not be enough to even surpass current Macbook Pro offerings. So they'll also need to do something more on that front.
For the truly high end they will need an external GPU. Removing the integrated GPU should get up enough space for lots more Firestorm cores.
And given that Firestorm is the fastest available CPU core, they probably don’t need 32 of them to match the highest multicore performance levels of existing AMD and Intel CPUs.
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Yes, that's the M1X rumor, but that isn't going to be enough to compete with high-end CPUs in iMac and Mac Pros. For those, we have the 32-core rumor (but that is a massive die).
And doubling the M1-GPU will not be enough to even surpass current Macbook Pro offerings. So they'll also need to do something more on that front.
For the truly high end they will need an external GPU. Removing the integrated GPU should get up enough space for lots more Firestorm cores.
And given that Firestorm is the fastest available CPU core, they probably don’t need 32 of them to match the highest multicore performance levels of existing AMD and Intel CPUs.