Apple in 'Advanced Talks' to Acquire GPU Supplier Imagination Technologies [Update: No]

[ck2875]

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Update 8:25 AM: Apple tells CNBC it "did hold some talks" with Imagination but does not intend to make an offer to acquire it.

I can only imagine reading this would be soul-crushing if you're Imagination Technologies and didn't yet know Apple had no plans to make an offer.

 

[Piggie]

They do in most cases today. You do realize that ARM was started as a joint venture by a few companies, including Apple, right? Some of you kids need to do your homework. As for the rest of your comment (the part I didn't quote), I don't understand what you're going on about. I was saying that Apple didn't have the capability to build their own GPUs from scratch, so it would make sense to pick up talent and designs from Imagination and integrate them into their existing chip teams so that they can better streamline their entire process and more completely own the technology that makes their devices so fast and energy efficient.

Oh I know and I agree.
It's just the, let's call it "Magical Fantasy" viewpoint some seem to have about Apple, that they sit there with a blank sheet of paper each year and just design the best chip in the world from scratch.

If that were true NOW, hey why buy anyone, just get a fresh blank sheet and design some GPU's vastly better than Nvidia etc has ever come up with ready for next year.

Oh and whilst they are at it, build some x86 beating chips for Mac Desktops, and some Samsung/type beating solid state storage chips.

Some people just seem to have a bizzarre grasp on reality here.

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

Ohhhhh boy... We all know that the clock is ticking on Intel Macs... Only a matter of time now before ARM-based Macs start rolling out.

I see a flame out if they do. Anyone remember the Big Huge Netbook Fascination of not that long ago? It was supposed to be 'EPIC I TELL YOU!', and, well... The one that I bought was such a turd, I couldn't give it away. I ended up scraping it. No parts were reusable except for the anemic hard drive.

I did build a system using Intel's Atom based motherboard. I think it was their gen 2-ish. It was pretty fast, for general things. I don't even think they make an Atom motherboard anymore. Arm's, so far, are for toys.
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I can only imagine reading this would be soul-crushing if you're Imagination Technologies and didn't yet know Apple had no plans to make an offer.

Yes, because I'm sure that when the comments of Apple being interested, their phone was ringing off the hook.

A friend of mine from college, who couldn't get a date to save his life, told me that he was getting propositioned constantly after it got out that he was engaged. He found it pretty funny... His then soon to be wife, unsurprisingly, not so much...

Funny how it is...