Highly doubtful. They cannot scale two Max chips together properly and do not sell well. The last thing they need is another chip that cannot scale and sells even worse. I think they need to forget about the whole slicing chips together fiasco and just design another proper chip that goes beyond the MAX with enticing new features to tempt the pros.
It would be nice, especially since this would effectively double max RAM, but I suspect interconnecting these would be very challenging. Once you start moving across a PCB, many of the gains Apple got by putting it all on a package starts to disappear. To go fully Pro, Apple would have to really look hard at the current design. The way they handle memory management, they lean on super fast access to solid state storage, which works okay since the bandwidth and access speeds are so fast, but too much of that wears the drive down prematurely. With everything being integrated, that's a tough pill. Systems where the primary storage is in significant decline perform quite poorly.
So you have something that directly compares the PHYSICAL size of the M2 chips to the PHYSICAL size of the M3 chips? Apple’s photo of the M3, M3Pro and M3Max chips does not include a scale to show the actual dimensions. I would like to see a direct comparison of the physical dimensions any of M3 chips to any on the previous M1 or M2 chips but I have not seen a quantitative comparison of physical dimensions or area. All I’ve seen are core and transistor counts.
Agreed. If I was in the market for a Mac mini, there's no way I'd buy one now. The same way that my sister's family stayed with their really old iMac for an extra year due waiting for the M2 version... (Which then ended up with an M3 - which will mean an even later upgrade next time)
Sadly, I know but… have you checked benchmarks?
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Apple is working on a new Mac Studio that is likely to launch in the second half of 2024, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman believes.
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Gurman mentioned the details in this weekend's edition of the "Power On" newsletter. He explained that the new Mac Studio is likely to be offered with the as-yet-unannounced fourth variant of the M3 chip. This will, like previous generations, double the components of the "Max" version, meaning that it will feature up to 32 CPU cores and 80 GPU cores.
Taiwanese research firm TrendForce believes that Apple will launch a new Mac Studio featuring the M3 Ultra chip at WWDC in June, just as it did with the M2 Max and M2 Ultra Mac Studio last year. Prior to the launch of these models in 2023, Gurman reported that Apple was already working on two follow-up machines.
Gurman also believes, contrary to suggestions earlier in the week, that Apple is likely to refresh the Mac Pro with this new high-end chip. He does not believe that Apple is likely to again abandon the machine after only one year.
He added that while upcoming devices such as the M3 MacBook Air could be popular if marketed properly, the Mac roadmap for 2024 is looking "otherwise muted," suggesting some skepticism about Apple's ability to turn the Mac's underperforming sales around.
Article Link: Apple Working on Next-Gen Mac Studio and Mac Pro
Maybe they'll offer Hermes double tour straps instead of stainless steel handles for just an extra $2499. A small trifling of an expense. But it'll match you Apple watch band perfectly. Perhaps they can make some Tiffany wheels for that extra pop. /s
Extremely small market for it? They might end up falling into the same Mac Pro trap as before. The Studio is the new (semi)-pro, and it's highly unlikely Apple has a 4090 competitor in the works. A lot of the Pro apps in different spaces have moved away, maybe they will return to the Mac, maybe not.
Because the original poster said he was waiting for an M4. Why bother? The M3 Ultra will be overkill for most people.
Exactly! It boggles my mind. Plus, they could create a x86 PCI card, so we could run windows, linux next to macOS. This shouldn't be that hard to do and would be wonderful to have! Then Mac Pro could finally be a beast to conquer them all!
I saw the rumored rendering of the Mac Pro Mini. It's also very mobile when you add the Wheels; you can ride it down the hallway!
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Put in on the side, add tiny blue-ray rw slot, m3 max/ultra at the front, big hunking external GPU like RTX 4090 at the back and it is a win win in my garden 
you forgot hobbyists - who will complain it is too expensive and not buy it
I guess the M3 Max besting my Intel Mac Pro is one of the bugs then. Come on you can do better than that; explain your point in detail.
A Mac Studio Ultra starts at $3,999.99. A Mac Pro (only available as an Ultra) starts at $6,999.99. That seems like $3,000, not $6,000.
Your question was does it have Apple Silicon support, which they can confirm already
Do you own a 2019 Mac Pro? What configuration do you have? Not sure how you expect a new X86_64 machine with an even smaller potential market to sell for less than the last generation Intel Mac Pro and for less than an Apple Silicon machine where they do not have include paying for someone else’s silicon IP.
What “workstation” do you currently own? What software do you run that requires a workstation? Is it available for macOS? Why do you think that anyone will support the truly tiny market that would be an X86_64, AMD GPU machine?
