Why Apple's new GPU efforts are a major disruptive threat to Nvidia Apple's plan to decisively migrate iOS to its own internally-developed GPU within the next two years obviously shocked Imagination Technologies, its current supplier of PowerVR graphics technology. It should also rattle Nvidia. Here's why. Daniel Eran Dilger 9 years ago 76
Apple passingly acknowledges external GPU technology during future Mac Pro, iMac reveal Apple with a single sentence in an interview has acknowledged the existence of external graphic processing units — and continues to not put more than casual blocks in place to prevent them from functioning. Mike Wuerthele 9 years ago 12
As Apple's GPU plans go public, Imagination fears becoming a tech orphan Ten years after Apple effectively created a viable, high-end mobile graphics business for Imagination Technologies—and a year after the iPhone maker publicly declined to acquire the company—the British graphics technology firm now appears to be in full panic mode that its mobile technology may end up abandoned like MIPS, PowerPC, Nvidia's Tegra and Texas Instrument's OMAP. Daniel Eran Dilger 9 years ago 23
PowerColor's Thunderbolt 3 Devil Box is the easiest way to get an external GPU on the MacBook Pro New third-party hardware releases make the external GPU situation for macOS both less expensive, and slightly less "hacky" to install. AppleInsider examines the PowerColor Devil Box — so far the best way to get your MacBook Pro to Mac Pro tower GPU speeds and even give older hardware a significant boost without doling out the cash for a new computer. Mike Wuerthele 9 years ago 45
Apple's Federighi suggests GPU issues on 2016 Retina MacBook Pro fixed in macOS 10.12.2 In email response to a customer regarding GPU anomalies associated with the Touch Bar MacBook Pro, Apple's senior VP of Software Engineering Craig Federighi suggested that the problem is solved in the latest macOS 10.12.2 beta. Mike Wuerthele 9 years ago 17
