Article: Parallelism at HotPar 2010
By: Rohit (.delete@this..), August 5, 2010 7:31 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Richard Cownie (tich@pobox.com) on 8/4/10 wrote:
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>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.
Present iMacs and Mac Pros are ATI exclusive.
It may be more profitable for Apple to not go with one supplier only, if only to get better deals. And note that power efficiency matters more in notebooks.
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Speaking for myself only.
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>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.
Present iMacs and Mac Pros are ATI exclusive.
It may be more profitable for Apple to not go with one supplier only, if only to get better deals. And note that power efficiency matters more in notebooks.
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Speaking for myself only.
