Debunking Apple M1X Naysayers

A lot of people claim Apple’s M1X will be significantly restrained in terms of number of cores and memory. Here is the case against that view.

We have started seeing more rumors about Apple’s M1X chip and specs. We got this story: The M1X Will Be Incredible.

The claim in this story is the following:

The M1X is rumored to have 12 cores in total, with 8 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores.

Every time these rumors and speculations pop up, naysayers are eager to pour cold water on the whole idea. The M1 is already too large, they say. They cannot expand it with that many cores. And even if they could, that means they cannot expand the memory and performance will suffer anyway.

Are we to believe these claims? Now, I am not a chip designer but I can look up the important specs and do my own back-of-the-envelope type of calculations. Based on that, I don’t see how these claims stack up. Let us start with the claim that they cannot add more cores. Let us look up the size of some of Intel’s current lineup.