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Re:Imagination Technologies put up for sale amid Apple dispute by dogma1138 on Thursday June 22, 2017 @12:04PM (#14613189)
Nvidia and AMD are doing the same thing. Outside of X86 GPUs are probably the most walled off market, you literally cannot make a GPU today without violating a patent.
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Re:Imagination Technologies put up for sale amid Apple dispute by wolfgke on Thursday June 22, 2017 @12:12PM (#14613240)
> Outside of X86 GPUs are probably the most walled off market

I think FPGAs are more walled off.

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Re:Imagination Technologies put up for sale amid Apple dispute by rasz on Thursday June 22, 2017 @05:06PM (#14615375)
NVidia started to use tiled rendering recently, EDIT: maybe after relevant Imagination patents expired.
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