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Buy Nvidia or AMD. The race to AI will be won by hardware. Apple right now will lose to Google and Amazon without some serious help and market advantage. Sure

Buy Nvidia or AMD. The race to AI will be won by hardware. Apple right now will lose to Google and Amazon without some serious help and market advantage. Sure google can build a fab or rent one out, but the army of engineers employed at either and the scores of patents would put Apple miles ahead. It’d also give them a the back door they need into the enterprise market. Sort of how they won the consumer market back from Microsoft with the move to mobile. They’d have an AI hardware platform available for enterprise... A-nX ARM chips and insanely good graphics cards powering servers. see ya later, Intel...

scarface74 9y ago
I think Apple could build hardware just as good as NVidia or AMD. Apple has a software and services deficiency.
- rubyn00bie 9y ago
  I politely disagree, Intel can't even build GPUs as powerful as NVidia (or AMD) and all of it's offerings so far have been very sub-par in terms of massively parallel computing. They have an insane amount of knowledge on fabricating chips, researchers, and money (though Apple does too). At least, I feel that if Intel can't compete with NVidia and AMD in the GPU space neither can Apple. Maybe with the return of the mac pro, etc, we'll see Apple focus on pure computing power in a new, unseen, way and I'll be wrong they need acquire... But short of something absolutely herculean ($100bn investment), I don't see them coming out on top.
  - scarface74 9y ago
    Apple hasnt tried. Seeing how well Apple has done creating performant CPUs compared to Intel given the thermal and power constraints of mobile and how far they have come with GPUs for mobile, they could probably do well. On the other hand, the future is mobile. Has AMD and NVidia shown any skill in developing GPUs for mobile that are competitive with Apple?

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Buy Nvidia or AMD. The race to AI will be won by hardware. Apple right now will lose to Google and Amazon without some serious help and market advantage. Sure

by rubyn00bie 9y ago

scarface74 9y ago
I think Apple could build hardware just as good as NVidia or AMD. Apple has a software and services deficiency.
- rubyn00bie 9y ago
  I politely disagree, Intel can't even build GPUs as powerful as NVidia (or AMD) and all of it's offerings so far have been very sub-par in terms of massively parallel computing. They have an insane amount of knowledge on fabricating chips, researchers, and money (though Apple does too). At least, I feel that if Intel can't compete with NVidia and AMD in the GPU space neither can Apple. Maybe with the return of the mac pro, etc, we'll see Apple focus on pure computing power in a new, unseen, way and I'll be wrong they need acquire... But short of something absolutely herculean ($100bn investment), I don't see them coming out on top.
  - scarface74 9y ago
    Apple hasnt tried. Seeing how well Apple has done creating performant CPUs compared to Intel given the thermal and power constraints of mobile and how far they have come with GPUs for mobile, they could probably do well. On the other hand, the future is mobile. Has AMD and NVidia shown any skill in developing GPUs for mobile that are competitive with Apple?