Article: Parallelism at HotPar 2010
By: Richard Cownie (tich.delete@this.pobox.com), August 4, 2010 8:50 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Rohit (@.) on 8/4/10 wrote:
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>All current macbooks ship with nv gpu's
OK. Mostly GeForce 320M's in an integrated chipset
for Core2 cpu's.
So what happens when Apple gets round to putting Nehalem
or SandyBridge cpu's into macbooks ? No more NVidia
chipset; probably no separate GPU for the low-end
machines, just use the cpu's IGP; and for the high-end
models, surely ATI, with an array of good small
power-efficient Evergreen parts (or upcoming Southern
Islands chips), and already with the cards in iMacs
and Mac Pros, will have the inside track and the
flexibility to offer a price that NVidia can't match.
Nvidia is trading on its past glory. But that's fading
fast.
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>All current macbooks ship with nv gpu's
OK. Mostly GeForce 320M's in an integrated chipset
for Core2 cpu's.
So what happens when Apple gets round to putting Nehalem
or SandyBridge cpu's into macbooks ? No more NVidia
chipset; probably no separate GPU for the low-end
machines, just use the cpu's IGP; and for the high-end
models, surely ATI, with an array of good small
power-efficient Evergreen parts (or upcoming Southern
Islands chips), and already with the cards in iMacs
and Mac Pros, will have the inside track and the
flexibility to offer a price that NVidia can't match.
Nvidia is trading on its past glory. But that's fading
fast.
