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Apple's ARM chips can process a metric ton of ops per cycle due to the architecture of the chip: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25257932
But the answer to the question is still "no".
The power leveling in this chip's naming scheme can rival Dragon Ball Z.
I wish HN was like this more often
How does Apple manage to blow every other computing OEM out of the water? What's in the secret sauce of their company? Is it great leadership? Top tier engineering talent? Lots of money? I simply don't understand.
Apple have some serious chip design abilities. Imagine if they entered the server market, with this architecture it could be very successful.
They tried that before and flopped. The server market is different. Companies buy servers from the low bidder. Apple has never really played in that market.
At what point Apple will put those chips in their servers or sell server chips? It only makes sense for them to take this architecture to the cloud deployments
https://www.deseret.com/1999/9/1/19463524/apple-unveils-g4-d...
I kinda believe em this time, but time will tell.
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Not really. Thanks to the GPU interconnect NVLINK we have system 320GB. https://www.deltacomputer.com/nvidia-dgx-a100-320gb-3ys-edu.... There are even some with 640GB. This is at a different price point though.
640GB should be enough for anyone.
Does it mine bitcoin well?
Not Bitcoin but Ethereum https://9to5mac.com/2021/11/10/m1-pro-macbook-pro-cryptocurr... M1 Pro -> 5.8 MH/s, with a 17w draw, means $12.82 a month profit. I don't imagine the M1 Ultra is too much better, maybe 20 MH/s at absolute most, but we'll see. It definitely won't be as economical as 3070 or 3080 FE cards at current profitability levels.
also note that mining calculator they used assumes 2 Ether per block paid to miners
In Ethereum it can be much much higher because people pay to use that blockchain. Mining can be insanely profitable and I’m not aware of any calculator that shows it. Everyone is operating on bad data. A cursory look right now shows latest blocks having 2.52 Ether in them, which is 26% greater yield.
Block 14348267 a few minutes ago had 4.83 Ether, 140% greater yield
There have been prolonged periods of time, weeks and months, where block rewards were 6-9 Ether.
Miners were raking it all in while the calculators said “2 Ether”
All this to say it could probably make $20-30 a month.
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But the answer to the question is still "no".
Doesn't have to though. A Threadripper 3990X uses barrels of electricity, generates plenty of heat, comes with no GPU, has worse single-threaded performance, and still costs $4000 by itself without any of the parts needed to make it actually work.
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80% of the desktop market and 100% of cloud deployments won't care.
I dunno, I think cloud is starting to think more and more about power consumption of the chips used, where Apple Silicon blows the competition out of the water.