appleinsider.com — A technology licensing suit between Intel and NVIDIA over controller chipsets and the next generation of Intel's Core i7 CPUs may complicate Apple's immediate plans for the next iMac and Mac Pro, and disrupt the company's long term strategy for standardized GPU acceleration using OpenCL.
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rogermcdodgerFeb 22, 2009
Being that Apple aren't going to be using i7 regardless how is this issue relevant right now? The Mac Pros are going to be Xeon 5500 series processors on an Intel board, whether it has SLI support or not is not an issue because Apple aren't going to use that anyway. So the only place Nvidia have is supplying GPUs, possibly a GTX 260 and Quadro FX 5800, and being that last time they screwed up the 8800GT (according to Job's) maybe Apple will be looking at ATI for the mid card anyway.As for the iMac that was never going to be using 130W processors, and those it will use already have a working Nvidia platform.So yeah in the future when i5, mobile Nehalem or Westmere are suitable for the iMac perhaps this may be of some issue, but it will probably be resolved one way or another by then anyway. There is also no reason Apple have to stick with an Nvidia chipset, it was just the best thing at the time.
1hrsleepFeb 22, 2009
It's appleinsider. Did you expect anything else?
elranzerFeb 23, 2009
Apple only accounts for 3%-8% of the market. I'm sure this affects HP and Dell a hell of a lot more.
jayrdFeb 23, 2009
Oh, they do. Round these parts, we call them consumers.
burn0u7Feb 23, 2009
i've been a fan of AMD since the 5x86 133. up until last week, i've had NOTHING but AMD. I just upgraded from a AMD 6000+ X2 Socket AM2 - even on a good board such as the ASUS Crosshair the 6000+ is like going really fast then hitting a steep hill and having to downshift. Last week i upgraded to the i7 920 with 6gb DDR3 1600 ram on the asus p6t deluxe. The Phentom II is ass. Since AMD merged with ATI, they've gone down hill. The i7 is a really good chip anyway you look at it. I have it overclocked, stable, and running at 3.87ghz and stock is 2.67. Sure, the board cost me 300, the chip 300 the ram was 180, and the proc cooler was about 80. when you buy junk you get a crap system.
Closed AccountFeb 23, 2009
too bad your power bill will increase tenfold
sregnarFeb 27, 2009
Intel is scared! Hey guys, check out this link on digg. My podcast interviewed Head PR Rep Derek Perez from Nvidia and he talked all about the feud with Intel, very candid.<a class="user" href="http://www.digg.com/hardware/NVIDIA_Chats_About_Public_Feud_With_Intel_on_Podcast">http://www.digg.com/hardware/NVIDIA_Chats_About_Pu ...</a>