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Originally posted by samdraz View Postacutally this is nice thought, intel gpu will get performance boost it needs
Intel has made CPUs with 2x and 3x sized GPU blocks (and some even with on-die DRAM) for a few generations, but they only sell them into the laptop market. They're not cheap, largely because large dies cost $$$.
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Originally posted by Marc Driftmeyer View PostUse your head and research Apple's patents for GPGPUs. You might learn a thing or two.
Edit: in case you have some trouble with that, here:
Last edited by coder; 22 June 2017, 09:11 PM.
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Originally posted by marciosr View PostGuys, do you thing that is plausible a open source company to buy a hardware company?
In this specific case though it is not really plausible as Imagination is making only GPUs, so this fictional opensource company can only be a opensource-friendly hardware manufacturer that has SoCs or CPUs already.
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Originally posted by audi.rs4 View Post
This definitely crossed my mind, even before this announcement.
I am pretty sure there will be legal trouble* if Apple did this to drive down the stock price and then purchase it at a discount. The only way Apple could still buy them is to offer it at the same price as Apple initially talked to IMG before the break out.
* It is a little more complicated for Apple because they also happen to be one of the largest shareholder for IMG with 9% of its shares.
Although a lot of this is unlikely because rumours has Apple only wanted the GPU part and nothing else. And we know IMG is pretty much worthless without its GPU. MIPS is gim, their wireless IP isn't anything compared to CEVA.
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Originally posted by uid313 View Post
Why on earth would Apple lower the price of their iPhone?
That makes absolutely no sense at all.
"Why could they?" -- the same way Commodore did back in the day, by owning the entirety of the supply chain and thus being able to control the cost of the chips. Difference here being that Apple wouldn't own the factory, but similarity being that they don't have to pay to license the IP. They already design their own CPUs for their iWalledGarden tech; if they bought out the PowerVR GPU tech's owner, Apple's profit margin would increase.
This is all hypothetical, of course, but it makes some sense and has plenty of corollaries in history. AMD bought ATI, nVidia bought 3dfx, etc. I don't know that they dropped the prices then, either.
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Originally posted by boxie View Post"OMG WHAT, WHY DID I NOT SEE THIS COMING" - no one at all
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Originally posted by coder View PostI think @Vistaus wasn't saying they don't have patents, but that it would save Apple the trouble of having to license GPU patents (for graphics). Imagination has publicly made implied threats that Apple's own GPU would require a significant expenditure on patents from somebody. Use your search engine.
Edit: in case you have some trouble with that, here:
https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/2...-dumps-company
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