> Afterburner has attributes of the new Apple Silicon design in that it is proprietary to Apple and fanless. Apple designed and released Afterburner, a custom "accelerator" card targeted at video editing with the gen 3 Mac Pro in 2019. > There is already a living example of a custom Apple-designed external graphics card. > While the Apple Silicon SoC can run with some GPU tasks, it does seem it does not make sense for the type of work that big discrete cards have generally been deployed for. This is intended to be a plug-and-play system for graphics and storage upgrades. > The current, Mac Pro design has the Mac Pro Expansion Module (MPX). > It seems unlikely Apple spent 2017-2019 designing a Mac Pro that they would not carry forward with Apple Silicon hardware. That's just six months prior to the Apple Silicon announcement. > The current Mac Pro design wasn't announced until June of 2019 and didn't hit the market until December 10th of 2019. Four years ago this month, Apple unusually disclosed that it was "completely rethinking the Mac Pro." > It may not be obvious, but Apple has repair work to do in the pro community. I wrote about this 10 months back, and it still applies following Studio: I suspect Apple is set to debut powerful revision to the Mac Pro focused on AI/ML at WWDC. It has been a phantom product, because Apple has needed to fill major gaps in the desktop space first.
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