I'm really interested to see what Apple eventually does. I don't think Apple will ever again be at all interested in releasing something as genuinely capable at a reasonable price point: my expectation is they are working real hard on new things that they can and will charge vastly more for, that include not just amazing bandwidth but ridiculous cores too, that justify enormous colossal price points (above and beyond the unbelievable cost of ram+nand).

There's some really wild patents on some wild systems architectures here, spanning 2021 to 2024. A lot of this can definitely go into an Ultra like design, but there's definitely broader possibilities here, that I expect they're now working furiously on. https://bsky.app/profile/ogawa-tadashi.bsky.social/post/3mif...

It's just so hard for me to come to terms with what a post-consumer Apple would be like! The Ultra chips are the mini-computers to the mainframe, and in this arena, they need to scale up and move upmarket and I cannot imagine how weird it would be to be an Apple that is so torn like that: that is still the worlds favorite consumer computing, but that also is selling mini-data-center like things, at phenomenal price.

Eventually if component prices ever settle that will be a commanding position to be in, to sell widely from, to have architecture for: but for the next half decade? A torn Apple.

Maybe for the M6 or M7 generation that might happen?