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More Details on Apple's New Orlando 'GPU Design Center'
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I wonder whether this is part of the Bob Mansfield "ambitious plans for the future" projects. I agree that this is not about making a new graphics IP but in some way tweaking it to Apple's needs. Perhaps an entirely new way to think about graphics on an SoC?
Apple's not building a new GPU. They are optimizing/customizing designs of their new CPU with a customized design of licensed ImgTec IP, combined with their own add-on IP that deals with multi-core, memory management and more.
Read some patents granted to Apple. They will have the latest custom 6 series ImgTec with their latest ARM64 ready multi-core CPU in their own SoC.
Read some patents granted to Apple. They will have the latest custom 6 series ImgTec with their latest ARM64 ready multi-core CPU in their own SoC.
As much as I love MIPS, what does a GPU supplier get for buying a general-purpose CPU architecture?
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Hmm, a 14-15 megapixel 27" Retina display could to with some final compositing/processing & h.265 decode on the monitor itself to reduce Thunderbolt2 video bandwidth. Or perhaps we'll see a custom GPU instruction set in the A7 to render CoreGraphics/QuartzCore in Microcode?
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Anyone transferring from California, be aware that Florida's culture
is about 30 years behind. Criminal offense for shops to sell a Bong.
Criminal offense for possession of any amount of marijuana. Jail
provided. No Medical Marijuana....aligator clip found in your car
gets an arrest. Legal by legislation to bring your gun to work.
No stipulation as to what kind. Over a million people carrying
concealed firearms. Florida is Mississippi with Disneyland.
looks like the next iphone is gonna have an awesome GPU. apple is really bringing completely new things to the users this year: a newly designed iOS, new and better display, better camera, the 128 GB memory, NFC, new GPU, etc. i think these major improvements might force apple to name the next iphone the "iphone 6".
yep, there's no doubt the next iphone would offer awesome graphics, but i dont think the next iphone would be called iphone 6 it'd be called iphone5s and i dont think we would see nfc, 128gb memory,etc. in the upcoming iphone.
PC sales have taken a big hit this year, but that doesn't mean they're selling poorly all around. OEMs still pushed close to 100,000,000 out the doors, even while taking a 15% drop overall.
While it's no longer a sure thing, the death of the PC is very much fiction.
i hope they use this great new GPU chip in their upcoming iphone. iphone really needs to adopt the best and latest specs.
I wonder what this means for AMD. AMD has been making some great graphics cards lately; hopefully that doesn't stop
Yeah, the I-4 / Orlando area is full of ***hole drivers that are more likely to cause accidents than any other part of the state of FL. My proof, I live 45 min away.
Anyways, how awesome would it be if Apple decided to make its own mobile graphics chip for laptops that could rival the latest stuff from AMD & Nvidia. If only the Mac-side of Apple were more important to them than iOS stuff...
AMD is doing fine with their graphics cards and they just got design wins on all 3 next gen consoles. It's their CPU side that's hurting.
This is what I don't understand-PowerVR's stuff has been very competitive, scalable, and served Apple well...AND Apple's even a 10% owner, and they're not even the only choice Apple has.
Why is Apple reinventing the wheel here?
Connect the IP ...
Funny, I have spent time driving all over Orlando, I NEVER noticed bad drivers, I guess that is because I am from California where they give licenses to illiterate illegals who stop every chance they get because they are scared, can't read the signs, and are driving a car for the first times in their lives. I DID like the many empty side streets in Florida, but the tolls were quite annoying, and lots of roads to nowhere!
Everyone commenting here is failing to connect the IP dots
APPLE has a patent for multilayered displays to create 3D displays, certainly this group will be creating GPU to for these displays and experimenting with creating software to render 3D from 2D imaging, or they will build 3D cameras and GPU
I wonder if the flattening of the interface and icons might be because they will soon ship some kind of layered 3D display that will show icons as CUBES and they need simple graphics to conserve processing power
This would mean the much publicised schism between Ive and Forestal was ALL THEATER in lieu of this new techs roll out
Now let me tell you about the OLD FOGEY drivers in Cali. who shake their fist at you if you ride a bike staying in the bike lane, they get all freaked out because they don't notice the bike lanes and would not have the FOGGIEST as to how they work even if they did notice them
Funny, I have spent time driving all over Orlando, I NEVER noticed bad drivers, I guess that is because I am from California where they give licenses to illiterate illegals who stop every chance they get because they are scared, can't read the signs, and are driving a car for the first times in their lives. I DID like the many empty side streets in Florida, but the tolls were quite annoying, and lots of roads to nowhere!
Everyone commenting here is failing to connect the IP dots
APPLE has a patent for multilayered displays to create 3D displays, certainly this group will be creating GPU to for these displays and experimenting with creating software to render 3D from 2D imaging, or they will build 3D cameras and GPU
I wonder if the flattening of the interface and icons might be because they will soon ship some kind of layered 3D display that will show icons as CUBES and they need simple graphics to conserve processing power
This would mean the much publicised schism between Ive and Forestal was ALL THEATER in lieu of this new techs roll out
Now let me tell you about the OLD FOGEY drivers in Cali. who shake their fist at you if you ride a bike staying in the bike lane, they get all freaked out because they don't notice the bike lanes and would not have the FOGGIEST as to how they work even if they did notice them
It is a pretty fast paced type of place. And then when you add in the snowbirds who come down to FL for the winter--the population triples, and most of those winter residents are the blue haired old ladies from Ohio, Indiana, New York, etc. It is a recipe for problems. I used to live in Melbourne and I did not notice a lot of wrecks. Of course that was 26 years ago…I probably wouldn't recognize that city now.
As for Apple hiring these people away from AMD, Apple would be mad as hell if another tech company did the same to them.
Nintendo has been losing money on operations two years straight and the sales of its mobile and console sales have been disappointingly low.
Xbox has spent a ton of money getting into the market during its first half decade and started losing money again last year, more than four quarters before its new version was expected to go on sale, that it is quite possible Xbox has not made money over its lifetime. If it made money, it is possible it would not cover the return that would come from buying Treasury bonds. It is better than MS online division, but that is faint prize.
I am not all that familiar with Playstation, but I doubt its sales are any better.
Anyways, what do you think these guys would beg about?
Sony's profitable, though it took a while given how expensive their current system was at launch, which is probably why both companies are going lower end this time (although the Playstation 4 is still 50% more powerful than Xbox 3/One...and apparently lets you actually own games LOL).
They have compute aspirations, likely want to do custom memory interfaces and probably have a lot of OS statistics on resource utilization to balance their designs on.
Yep - their WiiU doesn't ignite any fancy in me. And I guess I am not alone. The Wii was a success sales-wide but deteriorated the branding image, as there were nearly no great games from third party developers. Your point?
Strangely and oddly just a page back there is the link to the article speaking about sold XBoxes and profit. But keep insisting on holding on to your beliefs. You will drool over WWDC next week, as I will drool over E3. And this years E3 will rock!
Well - there are more than 50 million consoles in the wild of every hardware maker. I guess Apple - the ones who are claimed to outperform consoles makers and themselves are claiming to "revolutionize the gaming market" - still has a far way to go with only about 14 million Apple TVs in the wild.
So in the end - and that was my point - neither MS nor Sony are envious of Apple's gaming efforts and neither of them is giving up their gaming division as there is no money to be made (which is what some forum user claimed).
Heck, do you even know the numbers of XBox Live or PSN-subscriptions?
Last gen Wii was a sales success, but new one? Disappointing. You were the one who claimed that Nintendo would be among those begging to differ on the bleak outlook prediction for consoles, so you are the one in need of point/proof to back up that claim.
You can calculate how much Xbox lost money during the first Xbox and the initial phases of Xbox 360, how much profit it made during the middle part of Xbox 360 life cycle and how much it lost during the last year, with one or two more quarters of piddly sales results still to come. It is not a "belief" when you can do the math. If you ignore losses from the first gen Xbox, you might come away with a better impression.
The products may be exciting, the entertainment might be awesome, but if your drool does not pay the bills for all these three console makers, it is not a good business.
You are comparing a whole industry with the set-top box sales from one company. Xbox 360 sold 10 million. Oops that is less than Apple TV sales. Are you still "slow hand clapping"?
If you take out Nintendo who is already circling the drain, only about 24 million between Sony and Xbox who still have aspirations for their next gen consoles and enthusiastic potential buyers. Apple TV sales of 13 million, most of it during the last few years, does not sound so bad now. You can add Roku sales to the mix and now you've got a set-top market comparable in unit sales to consoles, without even considering the smart TVs and Blu-Ray players that integrate some of these set-top box functionalities.