Apple Acquires Silicon Grail

[GPTurismo]

Re: The G4...

Originally posted by Catfish_Man
...is NOT 64 bit. It is a 32 bit chip with 128 bit SIMD pipelines. The AthlonXP and Pentium 4 are ALSO 32 bit chips with 128 bit SIMD. It's just that their 128 bit SIMD sucks, and the G4's doesn't. The ONLY 64 bit desktop chip that is actually known to exist is the AMD Hammer. If, by 64 bit, you mean that it can do double precision floating point, then you're correct. However, it doesn't do 64 bit integer, or 64 bit addressing (which is the main thing 64 bit chips do).

Sorry about that. i should have been clear. It has parts that are theoretically 64 bit. But it's not a true/full 64 bit chip like itaniums and SGi and Suns chips.

Just that typing real quick in at breaks here at work make you leave things out.

 

[3G4N]

> I don't know but it seems that Apple didn't purchase
> all of silicon grail they just got what they want..

At the bottom of the page it reads:

"Copyright © 2002 Apple Computer, Inc. ___ All Rights Reserved"

I'd say they pretty much bought the whole company,
(at least as much as anyone buys a "whole" company)

 

[firewire2001]

with all this jibba jabba going on it sounds like you guys have no idea exactly what this software does... (no offense or anything...)

heres a screenshot.. ive used their software a lot in the past -- i dont have it registered on this machine, so i cant do much, but heres a screen shot.. it seems like they might integrate a lot of the stuff from RAYZ into fcp...

since i didnt wanna include like a billion photos, i only included some of the most "interesting" features of the app..

 

[dantec]

Hum... Looks complicated.

I take what I said earlier back, we are NOT going to see this in an iAPP!

 

[Longey Nowze]

Originally posted by 3G4N
> I don't know but it seems that Apple didn't purchase
> all of silicon grail they just got what they want..

At the bottom of the page it reads:

"Copyright © 2002 Apple Computer, Inc. ___ All Rights Reserved"

I'd say they pretty much bought the whole company,
(at least as much as anyone buys a "whole" company)

oh! didn't notice that... either way buying some technologies or the whole company.. it's a good move by apple.. can't wait for the hardware though

THANK YOU
MaT

 

[drastik]

Yikes!...

What a scary looking UI. I know this is off point, but why are all of the high end video apps so ugly looking. I Mean, FCP 3 is a workhorse, and rapidly becoming the center of my digiworld, but it sure is bland.

Maybe apple is using all of this aquesition to create a leverage position agaist windows. The agreement's gonna expire, which means Bully Bill is gonna threaten to take away office and explorer anytime apple make him made...

...Unless Apple has a leverage point as well. High end video users buy a lot of PCs with a lot of windows liscences. Threatening to end support from all this high end jazz might have some impact.

Now, If we can just kidnap the MacBU people away from Bill and buy Adobe, everything will change.

 

[iGav]

Originally posted by drastik
Yikes!...

What a scary looking UI. I know this is off point, but why are all of the high end video apps so ugly looking. I Mean, FCP 3 is a workhorse, and rapidly becoming the center of my digiworld, but it sure is bland.

Maybe apple is using all of this aquesition to create a leverage position agaist windows. The agreement's gonna expire, which means Bully Bill is gonna threaten to take away office and explorer anytime apple make him made...

...Unless Apple has a leverage point as well. High end video users buy a lot of PCs with a lot of windows liscences. Threatening to end support from all this high end jazz might have some impact.

Now, If we can just kidnap the MacBU people away from Bill and buy Adobe, everything will change.

I know what you mean about the UI........... I think Apple will probably sort that out pronto....... this is where IMHO Discreet has even Adobe trumped.....

I quite like the FCP interface........ it's very elegant..... it could be worse..... everything could have the interface sophistication of say Flash.......

Ewwwww....

 

[Longey Nowze]

confused

I read this at MacCenteral and it confused me even more

the headline said:

Apple acquires Silicon Grail's RAYZ, Chalice software

the first paragraph says:

Cinema compositing software maker Silicon Grail has been acquired by Apple Computer, according to a Web page that replaces their existing Web site.

the last two paragraphs say:

The news of Silicon Grail's technology acquisition follows other similar moves from Apple as the company continues to expand its influence into the professional film production industry, including the company's acquisition of compositing software maker Nothing Real.

An Apple spokesperson confirmed for MacCentral that they had acquired technologies from Silicon Grail and said only that "Apple intends to use the acquired technologies in future products."

I'm confused

THANK YOU
MaT

 

[Scottgfx]

Bland is cool!

Originally posted by drastik
Yikes!...

What a scary looking UI. I know this is off point, but why are all of the high end video apps so ugly looking. I Mean, FCP 3 is a workhorse, and rapidly becoming the center of my digiworld, but it sure is bland.

These apps are designed and built by gearheads. They have a fabulous understanding of the mathmatics behind compositing, but the interface is more of an afterthought. Apple is not buying the interface, they are buying the technology. IMHO.

The people that run these systems are a rare breed. You have to almost get inside the brain of the people who design and build these systems. I used to be one of those. (I think) I ran a Grass Valley Kaleidoscope at a TV station. Not a simple machine to learn! I'm not as swift as I once was!

Re: FCP... We need bland!!! You don't want the interface to distract you from the work at hand.