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It seems to make sense for Apple to talk to alternative suppliers, if only to keep Intel on their toes. I wonder though, whether there are any places in Apple'
by iamcalledrob 17y ago
It seems to make sense for Apple to talk to alternative suppliers, if only to keep Intel on their toes.
I wonder though, whether there are any places in Apple's lineup where AMD chips are a better fit than Intel. I can't really think of any.
- pmjordan 17y agoIndeed, AMD's current selection of chips seems to be significantly less energy efficient than Intel's, so the speculation about notebook chips strikes me as extremely odd. Things are a little different at the high end - I think an Opteron-based Mac Pro might be realistic. The new 12-core Opterons are more energy efficient than the latest 8-core Xeons, and roughly equally fast. But then, if the top brass are negotiating now, real products are probably at least a year away, if not more, so who knows.
- osivertsson 17y agoMany reasons: * Intel vs nVidia legal battles have hurt Apple for sure. * Delays in new mobile chips. * Price * Apple hoped Larrabee would be a hit and introduced Grand Central Dispatch etc. only to have Intel cancel it. Did Intel communicate early enough that Larrabee was not going to be feasible? * nVidia is not doing very well in the graphics department with their new Fermi parts being power hungry and slow compared to AMD/ATI's chips.
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- hga 17y agoHasn't Intel just delayed Larrabee as a graphics solution, not officially given up on it? I.e. the current parts missed their marketing window, so they're only useful in the HPC market, but they hope to do better with later ones.
- Symmetry 17y agoI presume they aren't interested in anything that AMD is selling right now, but rather Llano, AMDs APU (CPU and graphics on the same die) which has had test silicon going out to partners recently.