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1/2 FWIW Scuttlebutt fr: weibo, Reddit, messg boards, murky websites, suggest Apple has GOOD REASON to be increasingly more tight-lipped/not publishing numbers for its latest silicon:  is falling behind! — M5 will be an ITERATIVE evolution of M4;  not ready in 2025 for TSMC’s SoIC-MH 3D packaging!

Why on earth does Apple refer internally to the M4’s P/E CPU cores as “Avalanche/Blizzard,” which harkens all the way back to the A15⁉️ The M4 P/E cores have more in common architecturally with the A18’s “Sirius/Nova” (ARMv9.x.x) P/E cores than even the A17’s “Everest/Sawtooth” cores(?) 🤔

Apple’s M5 had better not be like a 13% performance improvemt over the M4 — it should be AT LEAST +25% (but preferably more like 40%). Apple would do well not to lag in the LEAST in terms of things like bleeding edge HBM RAM & the like. Today’s HPC is using the fastest HBM the industry will bear…

The custom Apple silicon used for AI workloads in its proprietary data centers are NOT M-SERIES CHIPS and are built with a different design philosophy—including MORE ADVANCED NPUs than M-series designs. Apple “Project ACDC” chips focus specifically on AI inferencing w/greater efficiency and speed.

The M4 MacBook Pro features a quantum dot display

Blender benchmark highlights how powerful the M4 Max’s graphics truly are