Mac Pro: A Third Party Arm Chip Provider?

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There is no way Apple does not make the chip for the Mac Pro. It would be crappy single core performance, but for if they found some specific tasks that you really need massively multi-core, they could buy a third party chip and pray the profit margins to do that. And honestly, it would be worse because second time what they're doing now, that chip is not going to have any of the stuff that Apple wants out of its chips. The synergy would not exist with the third party thing. So whatever they do, that's what it's going to be. I'm going to go see Tor Brights.

Pre-show:
- Blue Man Group
- 🗣️ HYPERCRITICAL SHIRTS ARE BACK, BABY 🗣️
Follow-up:
- EV thoughts from Sam Abuelsamid
- Tesla V4 Superchargers
- iPadOS 17 window management
- An extended aside about social networks, federation, and socialism
- iCloud Keychain 🤝 third-party browsers
  - Ricky’s 🍑💨
  - Chrome Extension
Casey’s no-good, very bad day 😭😬
#askatp:
- Is Time Machine really useful anymore, anyway? (via Dan Provost)
  - Synology Products Compatibility List
- Could a third-party ARM chip end up in a Mac Pro? (via Torb)
- Servers love large CPUs; could Apple use Apple Silicon in servers? (via David Loring)
  - Apple Network Server
  - Xserve
- Could Apple make a hyper-fast “drive” to sorta-kinda expand RAM? (via Patrick Melody)
- Why no dual-socket CPU in the Mac Pro? (via Aryan Aneja)
- Does the Mac Pro really have an “super car” attributes anymore? (via Jan Lehnardt)
- Is the Vision Pro now the “halo car”? (via David Saunders)
Post-show: Marco’s update