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So, they'd be building their own integrated GPU. That was one of the biggest questions last few days, how they'd gap the graphics, but they are taking control o
by illuminated 6y ago
So, they'd be building their own integrated GPU. That was one of the biggest questions last few days, how they'd gap the graphics, but they are taking control over that as well. Good luck to them! Looking forward to see some comparison charts with Intel integrated graphics...
- Xixi 6y agoApple kicked Imagination Technologies out of its SoCs in 2017, and arguably was designing most of the GPUs even before. Going with AMD would have been a way more surprising route (and nvidia even more...), unless we are talking about the successor of the MacPro. But that will most certainly be the last Mac to be updated. More interesting will be the high end iMacs and MacBooks: AMD GPUs or Apple GPUs?
- illuminated 6y agoYesterday I wouldn't have said Apple, but now I'm almost certain it will be.
- hajile 6y agoApple signed a new licensing agreement with Imagination Technologies in January of this year. I suspect there was a major litigation threat somewhere behind that. https://www.imgtec.com/news/press-release/imagination-and-apple-sign-new-agreement/ https://www.imgtec.com/news/press-release/imagination-and-ap...
- 9OzUIvDwF4LvfUM 6y agoSamsung is partnering with AMD for the GPUs in their Exynos chips. Apple could do that or partner with Imagination again. For Mac Pros they could still stick with dedicated AMD cards. ARM does support PCIe and there are ARM servers that use AMD/Nvidia for GPGPU[2]. So Apple does have options and we'll see what they end up doing. [1] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-rdna-exynos-samsung-soc-smartphone-graphics https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-rdna-exynos-samsung-so... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaY3Ffor-8c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaY3Ffor-8c