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Tag: GPUs

Behind the scenes of Imagination Technologies’ company-saving deal with Apple

Monday, January 27, 2020 10:28 am2 Comments

It’s been a very rocky few years for Imagination Technologies. Then, on January 2, 2020, Imagination announced a new, company-saving deal with Apple …

Apple strikes new deal with U.K. chip designer

Thursday, January 2, 2020 8:45 am5 Comments

Apple previously used graphics chips or GPUs in its iPhones and iPads that were designed by Imagination Technologies, but it moved to its own internal chip designs..

AMD Radeon Navi GPUs spied within MacOS Mojave code

Tuesday, January 22, 2019 3:35 pm2 Comments

Thanks to some MacOS beta programming code, we might have been given a hint…

Apple’s management doesn’t seem to want Nvidia support in macOS, a bad sign for the next-gen Mac Pro

Friday, January 18, 2019 10:39 am31 Comments

In October 2018, Nvidia issued as public a statement as it ever does…

AMD shows off 7nm next-gen chips at CES, aims at Intel and Nvidia

Wednesday, January 9, 2019 4:51 pm7 Comments

AMD unveiled its next generation smaller and power-efficient computer chip and a graphics processor, aiming at bigger rivals Intel Corp and Nvidia Corp…

Apple still holds the fate of Imagination Technologies one year on

Tuesday, October 9, 2018 4:01 pmTuesday, October 9, 20184 Comments

Imagination is continuing to lose staff to Apple…

Geekbench shootout: Apple’s new 15-inch MacBook Pro (mid 2018) vs. other Macs

Thursday, July 19, 2018 3:32 pmThursday, July 19, 20185 Comments

How does the 2018 MacBook Pro 15 inch compare to other Macs?

Future Macs could adopt Intel’s new, high-performance discrete GPUs

Wednesday, June 13, 2018 10:55 amWednesday, June 13, 201815 Comments

Intel has confirmed it intends to create its own discrete graphics processing chips by 2020…

Ars Technica reviews Apple’s iMac Pro: It’s MUCH faster

Sunday, February 18, 2018 11:47 am53 Comments

Some high-end professional Mac users are frustrated, and they have been for years…

Macworld reviews Apple’s new iMac Pro: ‘Mac Pro power in the shape of an iMac’

Friday, January 19, 2018 5:33 pmFriday, January 19, 201824 Comments

Four years since Apple last shipped a desktop Mac with the word ‘pro’ in the name…

Apple’s iMac Pro has a Thunderbolt 3 storage surprise for you

Friday, January 19, 2018 1:25 pmFriday, January 19, 20188 Comments

You can have external Thunderbolt storage connected to your iMac Pro that equals or rivals…

What if Apple’s iMac Pro had TWO Vega GPUs?

Tuesday, January 16, 2018 3:29 pmTuesday, January 16, 201812 Comments

With the help of macOS 10.13.3 beta 4, we were able to add a second Vega GPU to the iMac Pro…

Early benchmarks for the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

Thursday, September 7, 2017 6:00 pm6 Comments

When an eGPU mad scientist reported getting the RX Vega 64 to work with a Mac…

Chinese government-backed fund targets Imagination Technologies for takeover

Monday, July 24, 2017 10:27 amMonday, July 24, 20173 Comments

The troubled British microchip ­designer Imagination Technologies has become a takeover target…

Apple escalates feud, sets up new UK office on Imagination’s doorstep

Monday, July 10, 2017 10:28 amMonday, July 10, 201719 Comments

Apple has raised the stakes in its bitter stand-off with Imagination Technologies by opening…

Apple fires back at Imagination Tech in contract dispute

Friday, July 7, 2017 9:57 am4 Comments

When the iPhone supplier Imagination Technologies Group Plc announced in April that Apple Inc…

Imagination Technologies attacks Apple’s homegrown GPU plans

Wednesday, July 5, 2017 2:25 pmWednesday, July 5, 20176 Comments

Imagination Technologies, the British-based technology firm that has long licensed the GPU tech…

It took just 81 days for this chipmaker to die after Apple dumped them

Thursday, June 22, 2017 3:05 pm8 Comments

The British firm that supplied the designs for Apple’s graphics chips is up for sale…

Former Apple supplier Imagination Technologies puts itself up for sale

Thursday, June 22, 2017 9:58 amThursday, June 22, 201717 Comments

Imagination Technologies, the British firm that lost 70 percent of its value after being ditched by Apple…

Apple silicon and Machine Learning

Monday, June 12, 2017 1:01 pmMonday, June 12, 2017No Comments

When Apple introduced its 64-bit A7 processor in September, 2013, they caught the industry by surprise…

Why CIO’s must understand Apple’s Neural Engine plan

Tuesday, May 30, 2017 11:06 am3 Comments

One day, soon, your Apple iPhone will be able to figure out when you’re going to get sick…

Apple is working on ‘Apple Neural Engine,’ a dedicated chip to power AI directly on devices

Saturday, May 27, 2017 11:40 amSaturday, May 27, 20177 Comments

Apple Inc. got an early start in artificial intelligence software with the 2011 introduction of Siri…

Imagination Technology starts dispute process with Apple

Thursday, May 4, 2017 10:56 amThursday, May 4, 201710 Comments

Imagination Technologies said it had started a ‘dispute resolution procedure’ with Apple…

Upgrading the GPU in your pre-2013 Mac Pro: Is it worth it?

Thursday, April 27, 2017 10:31 am16 Comments

As computer components get faster and more powerful…

Why Samsung’s Galaxy S8 can’t go core-to-core with Apple’s iPhone 7

Friday, April 21, 2017 4:31 pm11 Comments

iPhone 7 doesn’t just keep up with the twice-as-many cores in Galaxy S8…

UBS: Imagination likely to see Apple royalties slashed, then cease altogether

Wednesday, April 19, 2017 11:25 amWednesday, April 19, 20173 Comments

UBS analysts predicted that Imagination would become loss-making by fiscal 2019…

Why is Apple’s next-gen Mac Pro taking so long?

Tuesday, April 18, 2017 11:34 am27 Comments

So if you take Apple at its word, the next Mac Pro is being developed as we speak…

Cupertino’s custom silicon: On the Apple G-series and the next 20 letters left

Thursday, April 13, 2017 11:28 amThursday, April 13, 20173 Comments

Apple has achieved significant advantages through owning its own silicon. But where can it go next?

Without Apple, Imagination Technologies’ PowerVR has no future

Monday, April 10, 2017 5:30 pmMonday, April 10, 201710 Comments

At this point, anybody with even a cursory interest in technology stocks has probably heard…

Apple steps up homegrown GPU plans with London hiring spree

Sunday, April 9, 2017 11:38 am16 Comments

Apple is embarking on a hiring spree in London as it ramps up efforts to develop…

Why Apple’s ditching of Imagination is critical for the future of the iPhone – and maybe even the Mac

Wednesday, April 5, 2017 11:28 amWednesday, April 5, 201710 Comments

British company Imagination Tech announced earlier this week that Apple will stop using…

Apple aims for more control, less cost as it accelerates in chip design

Wednesday, April 5, 2017 10:44 amWednesday, April 5, 20173 Comments

In the clearest example yet of the iPhone maker’s determination to take greater control of the core technologies…

Apple could look to buy Imagination Technologies after ditching the chip firm, share price plunge

Tuesday, April 4, 2017 1:58 pmTuesday, April 4, 201713 Comments

Apple’s announcement to ditch the graphics chips designed by Imagination Technologies…

Apple supplier Imagination raises prospect of patent infringement lawsuit as shares implode

Monday, April 3, 2017 12:03 pmMonday, April 3, 20171 Comment

A small but critical Apple Inc. supplier here is raising the prospect of a patent fight…

Imagination Technologies’ shares collapse after Apple dumps UK chip designer

Monday, April 3, 2017 10:25 amMonday, April 3, 20178 Comments

Shares in chipmaker Imagination Technologies plunged over 60 percent on Monday after the British company…

Facebook has no plans to bring Oculus Rift VR to the Mac anytime soon

Thursday, March 2, 2017 5:01 pmThursday, March 2, 201719 Comments

While so many virtual reality hardware companies have been tasked only with selling…

Apple positions Metal as part of new 3D graphics standard for Web

Wednesday, February 8, 2017 1:28 pmWednesday, February 8, 20173 Comments

Apple’s WebKit team on Tuesday proposed a new Community Group at the World Wide Web Consortium…

Boosting GPU performance of Apple’s new MacBook Pro using a GPU expander

Friday, January 13, 2017 4:27 pmFriday, January 13, 201713 Comments

All the latest Macs have AMD GPUs. That’s fine…

New Mac Pro imminent? Trio of new AMD GPU references found in latest macOS Sierra beta

Wednesday, December 7, 2016 10:06 amWednesday, December 7, 201627 Comments

Users delving into the latest macOS 10.12.2 beta have discovered strings aligning with potential support…

Apple’s Thunderbolt 3-equipped MacBook Pro can use external GPUs

Thursday, December 1, 2016 1:01 pmThursday, December 1, 201614 Comments

During the development of the Thunderbolt 3 protocol, the ability to seamlessly interface with a GPU in an external PCI-E breakout box…

AMD reveals Radeon Pro 400 series GPU specs, as used in Apple’s new MacBook Pro

Friday, October 28, 2016 12:25 pmFriday, October 28, 201618 Comments

Following the announcement of the new Apple MacBook Pro, AMD has launched the Radeon Pro 400 series of power-efficient graphics cards…

An Apple-NVIDIA partnership has a bright future

Tuesday, September 27, 2016 4:26 pmTuesday, September 27, 201610 Comments

Since Nvidia has clearly demonstrated the superiority of its Pascal architecture in performance and energy efficiency…

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