Lots of what they do on the M1 is stuff that PowerVR was doing before (and apple's older GPUs were based on PowerVR's via a licensing deal). There are other ven

Lots of what they do on the M1 is stuff that PowerVR was doing before (and apple's older GPUs were based on PowerVR's via a licensing deal). There are other vendors who have also ditched some of this stuff. It's a smart move for Apple to double down on pruning hw features you don't think you need, but sadly you can only go all-in on it if you control the entire ecosystem.