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A comment on Apple’s 2016 in review. Parent comment

Re:Apple’s 2016 in review by nilkn on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @10:36AM (#13309775)
VR is a subset of PC gaming right now, and Apple has never offered hardware sufficient for high-end PC gaming.
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Re:Apple’s 2016 in review by toyg on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @12:09PM (#13310665)
GPU nowadays is almost a misnomer. They are more like supercharged versions of the old "floating-point calculation" chips. As such, they have plenty of applications beyond VR - bitcoin, data analysis, encryption etc etc etc.
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Re:Apple’s 2016 in review by intoverflow2 on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @11:20AM (#13310166)
GPUs are for more than VR. All 3D rendering is moving to GPUs, All machine learning development needs GPUs.

GPU is the future of professional computing in many emerging sectors. Apple currently ships no hardware compatible with any of this.

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