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0 pointsgumby5y ago0 comments

Because 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.

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acomjean5y ago

Apple 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.

gumbyOP5y ago

This 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.

TomVDB5y 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.

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