Insights from the NetworkChuck episode “Ethernet is DEAD?? Mac Studio is 100x FASTER!!”, published December 20, 2025.
Apple has quietly revolutionized local AI clustering by enabling RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) over Thunderbolt 5, reducing network latency by 100x. This software update allows developers to move beyond slow pipeline parallelism to tensor parallelism, effectively turning a cluster of Mac Studios into a high-performance machine capable of running massive, trillion-parameter models locally.
Topics: Apple, AI, RDMA, Clustering, Thunderbolt 5