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semiaccurate.com - 7/1/2009

Apple to Nvidia: Don't let the door hit your *ss on the way out

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Apple to Nvidia: Don't let the door hit your *ss on the way out

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Apple may drop NVIDIA chips in Macs following contract fight
AppleInsider — ... Published: 06:20 PM EST Although they've portrayed themselves almost as best friends for several months, Apple and NVIDIA are now rumored in a spat that could see some GeForce chipsets excluded from future Mac models. A report from this past weekend asserts that negotiations between Apple and NVIDIA are now extremely bitter after the latter's proposed terms were viewed as "arrogance and bluster" and all but rejected as-is. Those claiming to be inside the discussions have told SemiAccurate , the new project of a previous Inquirer editor with sources inside NVIDIA, that ...

Is Apple bailing on NVIDIA?
Computerworld Blogs - Macintosh & Apple — Former Inquirer writer Charlie Demerjian is reporting that Apple may stop using NVIDIA chips in upcoming Macs. He reports for SemiAccurate (a name that inspires confidence!), that Apple-NVIDIA negotiations on upcoming motherboard chips have come to a bitter halt. Apple and NVIDIA are going through rocky times. The NVIDIA chip deformations, or bumps, the story of which ...

Apple/NVIDIA Rift to Spark Major Component Changes?
TheAppleBlog — ... SemiAccurate is reporting that, according to multiple sources, at recent negotiations between the two companies, discussions became rather heated, in part due to NVIDIA’s apparently arrogant stance concerning its supplier relationship with Apple. Evidently, Apple was expecting more modesty from a company that has cost it so much cash, thanks to a problem it didn’t even acknowledge existed. ...

Apple may be dumping NVIDIA graphics for next-gen Macs (Updated)
Ars Technica - Infinite Loop — ... According to SemiAccurate (the irony of the site's name isn't lost on us), Apple is supposedly done with the "arrogance and bluster" that NVIDIA showed in its proposals concerning chipsets for Apple's next-gen hardware, which should include Nehalem-based Intel CPUs. According to the site's sources, the language used in Apple's rebuke was forceful and unfriendly, and amounted to Apple telling NVIDIA to "get lost" for three or four years. ...

Apple, Nvidia, Intel: Happy families?
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence — ... . While Apple CEO, Steve Jobs has in the past said his company hopes to continue working with Intel for “many years”, strong speculation last month suggested the company may not feel quite as much love for Nvidia. A report claimed negotiations between the two firms for use of Nvidia chipsets on Mac motherboards had come to a halt. This generated speculation Apple may use Intel or AMD GPU’s, or even field new graphics processors developed in-house. ...