Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 9th Oct 2009 11:47 UTC
The future of integrated graphics processors lies somewhere on the dies of future processors, that much is a certainty. However, this creates a big problem for NVIDIA, whose chipset business will be out, of well, business. Beating everybody to the punch, the company announced yesterday that it is ceasing all development on future chipsets, citing unfair business practices from Intel.
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...don't seem to be splitting ways anytime soon. Considering Apple's push for the Light Peak interconnect, they probably made some other agreements to tie their lines together in other areas as well. I'm sure Apple knew about NVidia's issues for a while - and was probably asked (by NVidia) to push Intel into allowing the bus license. I can see Apple and Intel having a long discussion over what to do about NVidia (and eachother) until the decision was made to go all-Intel. That would match with the way Apple does hardware: as few vendors as possible. Get NVidia out of the way and you have a platform with centralized and integrated hardware (the 'Apple' way). In exchange for the 'whole enchilada' was Light Peak - a distinctly 'Apple' piece of .. something, that Intel probably didn't think was such a great idea with USB3 coming so soon.
...at least that's just how it looks.
Intel doesn't develop new hardware for nothing, Apple owes them big. And as much as I like AMD, I just don't see Apple going there.