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This is a very biased sample. Everyone who is still using Mac despite Apple giving NVIDIA the boot obviously isn't doing work where peak performance computing r
by incrudible 3y ago
This is a very biased sample. Everyone who is still using Mac despite Apple giving NVIDIA the boot obviously isn't doing work where peak performance computing really matters - because that's just not a thing on Mac. Apple will never get there with their "big unified architecture" that's really a scaled up mobile chip, especially in terms of GPU.
Apple really has three options here:
- ignore that segment of the market
- create their own GPU AIBs and a software platform to make them attractive
- invite NVIDIA back onto the platform
Of these, the first one seems the most likely. The last one would be the most expedient, but conflicts with Apple policies against having a working solution that makes someone else look better than them.
- fooker 3y agoApple is going to do the second one if there’s enough of a market for running GPUs locally. Gaming clearly isn’t, for Apple. But running LLMs might be, time will tell if running them locally is going to become commonplace.
- pjmlp 3y agoApple is focused on gaming, however only in what concerns their mobile devices, and for that, the current hardware is good enough for cross-device development.