For the general public, the GeForce and Quadro GPUs, which dominate graphics hardware solutions for Macs, are yielding good results for Apple and indeed they are. However, the situation of the two behind the scenes appears to be gradually going down the drain (figuratively). Who suggests this are sources linked to the SemiAccurate, claiming that Apple “showed the front door” to NVIDIA.
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Apparently, the Cupertino firm sees the proposals for the renewal of the partnership as "arrogant", judging that a lot has been said in the last months about the quality of the graphic solutions that NVIDIA has produced in order to be susceptible to failures, after some time of use. This forced Apple to extend the warranty on its manufactured notebooks until September last year, and even made it swallow the negative results of investigations that clearly proved flaws in the production process of the GPUs currently provided for its products. In addition, it caused NVIDIA to be sued by its own insurer.
Such a breach of contract in two companies, if materialized, would lead to complete elimination of NVIDIA components from future Macs. But there are more causes for this supposed disruption: it must be Apple's supposed way out of the legal fight that NVIDIA and Intel have been involved in, in which the processor manufacturer demands a proper design for the future generation of its products.
With the exception of the Mac Pro, the entire line of Apple computers has the GeForce 9400M installed to provide integrated graphics. With that, an NVIDIA memory controller design needed to provide the integrated graphics of that chip, but with the constant evolution of the manufacturing process for Intel processors, Macs that take advantage of this will have to abandon the Core 2 architecture. all the advantages of using the 9400M are lost, since it is not allowed in the future processor platform capable of entering Macs in the future.
So, with no chance of NVIDIA settling its situation with Intel, Apple would be choosing the partnership that best suits it to continue its business. I do not characterize this as a bad thing for Ma: relying on GeForce for now and then made her park a little in the offer of more aggressive computers, we are in 2009 and the only computer of the company that overcomes the barrier ofdual-core the Mac Pro, precisely because it relies on the reliability of an architecture 100% devised by Apple in conjunction with Intel. Continue investing in chips with a higher frequency of clock it would have to end one day.
