Since the M1 is pretty much a fancy A15 Bionic, we can expect a new chipset next year in the form of an M2 that takes another performance leap.īut the M2 is still likely to be a SOC. After all, Apple has been upping its processor game yearly, like clockwork, on the iPhone. It's very likely that the M2 will substantially eclipse the M1. Cores allow threads to run nearly simultaneously, and many of today's problems respond very well to parallelization, especially graphics, data crunching, AI, ML, and AR-related tasks. The more cores, the more it's possible to parallelize certain problems. Apple provides a whopping 44 cores in its M1 Max SOC, split among performance and efficiency CPU cores, GPU cores, and neural (AI/ML) cores. There is absolutely no doubt that Apple's expertise with powerful SOC implementation is impressive. A Mac Mini Pro can take the M1 architecture about as far as it can go, so it doesn't really justify Apple introducing a Mac Pro based on even an M1 Max. With all these limitations, it's hard to think the M1 would make a practical foundation for a Mac Pro. If you're going to load up an array of storage devices, it's going to be over USB C or Thunderbolt. But if you can't add to the bus because there's no bus, there's no way to add ports.įlash storage isn't built into the M1 chip itself, but it is surface mounted onto the tiny logic boards that come with M1-based machines. If you can add PCI Express boards, you can add all manner of additional ports. So it's unlikely that the M1 architecture supports adding a bus, and that means all sorts of special purpose boards that were possible in Mac Pros are not possible in M1-based machines. As far as we know, there's no M1 bus architecture, since it's all inside the chip.

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