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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. ...
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. ...
