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If you're one of the richest companies in history you can "simply" invest 15 years into developing your own chips instead of buying Nvidia GPUs.
by wmf 2y ago
If you're one of the richest companies in history you can "simply" invest 15 years into developing your own chips instead of buying Nvidia GPUs.
- transpute 2y ago> simply invest 15 years into developing your own chips instead of buying Nvidia GPUs https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-and-Imagination-strike-GPU-deal-after-briefly-parting-ways.448976.0.html https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-and-Imagination-strike-G... Following the loss of Apple, easily its biggest client, Imagination was bought out by a Chinese-based investment group. Apple subsequently released its first in-house designed mobile GPU as part of the A11 Bionic SoC that powered the iPhone X.. The new “multi-year license agreement” gives Apple official access to much wider range of Imagination’s mobile GPU IP as well as its AI technologies. The A11 Bionic also included the first neural processing engine in an iPhone https://9to5mac.com/2020/01/01/apple-imagination-agreement/ https://9to5mac.com/2020/01/01/apple-imagination-agreement/ Apple described Imagination’s characterizations as misleading while hiring Imagination employees to work for Apple’s GPU team in the same community.