News Apple Developing 32-Core ARM CPUs and 128-Core GPUs to Replace AMD Graphics, Report

[spongiemaster]

wow. 32 cores and fanless, right?

Unlikely. Why would you want a fan-less desktop workstation? When your computer is your source of income, performance should be higher priority than dead silence.

 

[jkflipflop98]

With the size of apple who is probably their wealthiest costumer, i'm 99% certain they aren't going to be trying to jack the rates up on them...

Your biggest customers will always get special treatment and pricing.

Maybe. Then again, what are they going to do if Nvidia decided to crank up the price? Develop their own custom Apple instruction set when they're already this deep into porting all their software over to ARM? Go back to x86?

 

[Makaveli]

Maybe. Then again, what are they going to do if Nvidia decided to crank up the price? Develop their own custom Apple instruction set when they're already this deep into porting all their software over to ARM? Go back to x86?

Will be something to discuss when it comes time to renew that contract.

My money is on them signing a deal with a locked in rate for a few years before NV took control.

 

[nofanneeded]

wow. 32 cores and fanless, right?

nope