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Re:Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for m... by DCKing on Saturday August 01, 2020 @01:43AM (#24017968)
> I'd wager that Apple has been using AMD for something as mundane as offering better pricing, rather than disagreement 12 years ago. (Again: despite all the lawsuits, Apple is still a major Samsung customer.)

This used to be true, as Apple swapped between AMD and Nvidia chips several times in 2000-2015. Then Nvidia and Apple fell out, and Apple has not used Nvidia chips in new designs in 5 years - a timeframe in which Nvidia coincidentally achieved its largest technical advantages over AMD. Apple goes as far as to actively prevent Nvidia's own macOS eGPU driver from working on modern macOS. A simple pricing dispute does not appear to be a good explanation here.

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Re:Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for m... by TomVDB on Saturday August 01, 2020 @02:11AM (#24018086)
Whatever the reason may be, the fact that Apple used Nvidia GPUs until 2015 at least debunks the endlessly repeated theory that it was because of the broken GPUs of 2008.
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Re:Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for m... by fluffything on Saturday August 01, 2020 @02:25PM (#24022727)
What hardware does apple use for all of its machine learning training (e.g. for Siri, etc. ) ?
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Re:Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for m... by paulmd on Sunday August 02, 2020 @01:39AM (#24026620)
What Apple is really worried about with NVIDIA is vendor lock-in. They own the walled garden, they absolutely are not going to accept an "external dependency" they can't control.

CUDA is such an "external dependency". It locks you in to something that's not an Apple product.

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