Re:Discussions with Apple regarding license agreement
by ansible on Monday April 03, 2017 @08:39AM
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Nvidia's Tegra is key to their mobile compute efforts. There is no way they are going to license it to anybody. They would sell Apple the chip... maybe. But they would want Apple to buy into their whole stack, which Apple isn't going to want either.
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Re:Discussions with Apple regarding license agreement
by coredog64 on Monday April 03, 2017 @02:25PM
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As near as I can tell, the CPU in Tegra chips are just vanilla core designs that Nvidia licenses from ARM. The secret sauce is the GPU. Given enough money I think Nvidia would license their GPU designs to Apple as it would expand the reach of CUDA and make it more of an industry standard.
Re:Discussions with Apple regarding license agreement
by ansible on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @12:50PM
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As far as the CPU cores go, yes, there isn't much to distinguish them there.
There is no way in the foreseeable future that Nvidia will license their GPU designs to anybody.
The only way you'll see Nvidia IP on an Apple box is if Nvidia-made chips are in there, but Nvidia will require buy in on the rest of their software stack. But Apple won't want to cede that much control of their platform to Nvidia.
Nvidia already had tremendous reach, they don't need Apple.