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AppleInsider: Apple may drop NVIDIA chips in Macs following contract fight
CrunchGear: Apple to NVIDIA: I’m so breaking up with you
SlashGear: Apple freeze out NVIDIA for 3-4yrs over GeForce failures
Betanews: What's Now: Recording industry wins big against Usenet file sharing service
Apple may drop NVIDIA chips in Macs following contract fight
AppleInsider —
... Published: 06:20 PM EST Although they've portrayed themselves almost as best friends for several months, Apple and NVIDIA are now rumored in a spat that could see some GeForce chipsets excluded from future Mac models. A report from this past weekend asserts that negotiations between Apple and NVIDIA are now extremely bitter after the latter's proposed terms were viewed as "arrogance and bluster" and all but rejected as-is. Those claiming to be inside the discussions have told SemiAccurate , the new project of a previous Inquirer editor with sources inside NVIDIA, that ...
Apple to NVIDIA: I’m so breaking up with you
CrunchGear —
... So what happens next? After the end of this current product cycle (so probably next year), Apple may be dropping NVIDIA like a rock. But wait a second, it would take a lot of convincing to get AMD to put their GPUs in an Intel system, considering their growing interest in whole-system advantages. It’s all so confusing! Fortunately, it’s also all speculation, so we can wait it out and see what happens. ...
Apple Nixes Nvidia?
I4U News —
... in MacBooks due to a really simple packaging error? Well apparently that was the straw that broke the back of the relationship between Apple and Nvidia. Dubiously named website Semi-Accurate is reporting that there has been a serious falling out between the gadget maker and the chip designer. The next generation of MacBooks and iMacs will not contain Nvidia chips. Apparently the split was not a particularly pleasant one. The report states that fairly harsh words were used. Apple's primary issue with Nvidia was due to their quality control issues, which have been rather ...
Apple freeze out NVIDIA for 3-4yrs over GeForce failures
SlashGear —
... has reportedly reached a peak, with Apple telling the company that they will not be using their products “for three to four years”. Discussions between the two companies were said to have become significantly heated, after NVIDIA executives were deemed arrogant in their negotiations for graphics chipsets in Apple’s upcoming Nehalem notebooks and iMacs. ...
What's Now: Recording industry wins big against Usenet file sharing service
Betanews —
... The news was originally reported by SemiAccurate and has been refracted around the blogosphere over the past few days. But since Apple is notoriously close-mouthed with the tech press, it's hard to say what's happening. Would Cupertino turn its back on the gains NVIDIA has made available for lower-end systems? Do the embarrassments of making good on those busted MacBooks outweigh the potential embarrassment of crawling back to Intel for the relevant chipsets? And what of Snow Leopard and its support for CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture)? These questions ...
Apple/NVIDIA Rift to Spark Major Component Changes? [TheAppleBlog]
GigaOM Network —
... SemiAccurate is reporting that, according to multiple sources, at recent negotiations between the two companies, discussions became rather heated, in part due to NVIDIA’s apparently arrogant stance concerning its supplier relationship with Apple. Evidently, Apple was expecting more modesty from a company that has cost it so much cash, thanks to a problem it didn’t even acknowledge existed. ...
Apple Said to be 'Ditching' Nvidia (Rumor)
Ubergizmo —
... are following on a report from newcomer website semiaccurate (as in “half-accurate”?) that says that Apple plans to ditch NVIDIA chips and that the relation between the two is deteriorating. The article also hints to NVIDIA's recent woes with chip defects. ...
Apple may be dumping NVIDIA graphics for next-gen Macs (Updated)
Ars Technica - Infinite Loop —
... According to SemiAccurate (the irony of the site's name isn't lost on us), Apple is supposedly done with the "arrogance and bluster" that NVIDIA showed in its proposals concerning chipsets for Apple's next-gen hardware, which should include Nehalem-based Intel CPUs. According to the site's sources, the language used in Apple's rebuke was forceful and unfriendly, and amounted to Apple telling NVIDIA to "get lost" for three or four years. ...
Apple dumping Nvidia graphics on future Macs?
TechSpot —
Former Inquirer writer Charlie Demerjian is reporting (for his new project called SemiAccurate , mind you) that recent negotiations between Apple and Nvidia over next-gen hardware have come to a bitter halt. At issue is supposedly a much publicized problem with previous-generation GeForce GPUs that ...
Apple dumping Nvidia graphics for future Macs?
TechSpot —
Former Inquirer writer Charlie Demerjian is reporting (for his new project called SemiAccurate , mind you) that recent negotiations between Apple and Nvidia over next-gen hardware have come to a bitter halt. At issue is supposedly a much publicized problem with previous-generation GeForce GPUs that ...
Apple, Nvidia, Intel: Happy families?
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
... . While Apple CEO, Steve Jobs has in the past said his company hopes to continue working with Intel for “many years”, strong speculation last month suggested the company may not feel quite as much love for Nvidia. A report claimed negotiations between the two firms for use of Nvidia chipsets on Mac motherboards had come to a halt. This generated speculation Apple may use Intel or AMD GPU’s, or even field new graphics processors developed in-house. ...
