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The next Apple machine I am going to buy will be using RISC-V cores.
by Koshkin 6y ago
The next Apple machine I am going to buy will be using RISC-V cores.
- gumby 6y agoBecause of this transaction? I’m sure this deal will have absolutely no impact on apple’s deal with ARM. Apple could of course Afford to invest in RISC-V (and surely has played with it internally) but they have enough control of their future under the current arrangement that it will be a long long time before they feel any need to switch — 15 years at least.
- acomjean 6y agoApple and Nvidia don't seem to see eye to eye. Nvidia doesn't support macs (CUDA support was pulled a year or two ago) and apples don't include Nvidia cards. This could change.
- gumby 6y agoThis is because Nvidia screwed apple (from Apple’s POV) years ago with some bad GPUs to the point where Apple flat out refuses to source Nvidia parts. I don’t know the internal details of course just the public ones so can’t say if Apple is being petty or if Nvidia burned the bridge while the problem was unfolding. Given that the CEO was the supply chain guy at the time I suspect the latter, as I’d imagine he’d be more dispassionate than Jobs. In any case I seriously doubt nvidia could, much less would benefit from cancelling Apple’s agreement.
- TomVDB 6y ago> ... to the point where Apple flat out refuses to source Nvidia parts. I've seen this argument made before. It would be a valid point if Apple stopped using Nvidia GPUs in 2008 (they did), and then never used them again. And yet, 4 years later, they used Nvidia GPUs on the 2012 MacBook Retina 15" on which I'm typing this.
- gumby 6y agoThanks for this correction!
- ksec 6y agoAnd the 2012 GeForce GPU had GPU panic issues and let say higher chances of GPU failures. And then that was that. We haven't seen Nvidia GPU again.
- TomVDB 6y agoI haven’t seen any of those in 8 years, but I’ll take you at your word... That said: AMD GPUs have also had their share of issues on MacBooks.
- delfinom 6y agoAMD doesn't grossly lie about their thermal specifications like Nvidia consistently does. To the point engineers can't design shit properly. It's one thing to make mistakes in engineering, that can be smoothed out with cash. It's another to outright lie and cover up.
- saagarjha 6y agoI suspect you'll be waiting for quite a long time, if not forever.
- dmix 6y agoFWIW Apple isn't even listed on RISC-V's membership page: https://riscv.org/membership/members/ https://riscv.org/membership/members/ While some like Google and Alibaba are listed as platinum founding members.
- nickik 6y agoI agree that Apple wont do RISC-V but you don't need to be a member to us it.
- CamperBob2 6y agoROFL. Why not wait for the upcoming Josephson junction memristors, while you're at it?