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Re:OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive by snowwrestler on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @07:00PM (#44057116)
The trash can was a bet on external GPU enclosures, which are technically feasible but just never took off in the marketplace. It was great engineering for a use case that just didn’t pan out.
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Re:OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive by pier25 on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @07:11PM (#44057185)
Apple never really wanted to support eGPU. That's why the marketplace never took off.
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Re:OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive by snowwrestler on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @09:44PM (#44057970)
Yes they did, they redesigned an entire very expensive product category around them.
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