Rumor: Apple To Drop Intel Chipsets
Posted by Muhammad adil khan | Posted in Intel laptop's | Posted on 12:16 PM
Lately, there were some rumors that pointed to a change that Apple could make and this is that Apple might replace Intel chipsets with AMD or VIA chipsets for their products. Some consider this very unlikely, but so far nobody explained why. Also, nobody said to us why this change would be good and why it would help Apple.
This is probably why Jon Stokes from Ars Technica decided to make it clear for us and from start he makes it very clear to us that he is “skeptical” and this switch would not be healthy for Apple. First, Jon wonders where will Apple use the chipsets - desktops, laptops, or even in both.
For desktops, Apple could use NVIDIA that will support dual-GPU and because Apple loves data parallelism, NVIDIA SLI is perfect. The speed of their applications could be improved with the help of “GPGPU” in combination with Snow Leopard and NVIDIA SLI. This would surely impress a lot of users or not as Snow Leopard will be available in mid-2009 exactly when Larrabee will be launched and Intel’s GPU is based on a many-core x86 multiprocessor(!). However, another chipset that destroys the rumors is Intel’s Nehalem that will be out by the end of this year.
As for laptops, Apple could replace Intel only for MacBook Air as they could use better integrated graphics processors as some say that Intel’s Core 2 Duo are not so capable. However, NVIDIA should decrease their packages in order to match Intel’s reduced-footprint packages which is a hard thing to do.
Personally, I agree with Jon Stokes and I don’t know why Apple would consider to replace Intel chipsets because those are good just like that and, IMHO, AMD chipsets could never meet the expectations (I prefer VIA chipsets). I guess it remains to see if the rumors could become a reality or if they are meant to do harm.
Ars Technica
This is probably why Jon Stokes from Ars Technica decided to make it clear for us and from start he makes it very clear to us that he is “skeptical” and this switch would not be healthy for Apple. First, Jon wonders where will Apple use the chipsets - desktops, laptops, or even in both.
For desktops, Apple could use NVIDIA that will support dual-GPU and because Apple loves data parallelism, NVIDIA SLI is perfect. The speed of their applications could be improved with the help of “GPGPU” in combination with Snow Leopard and NVIDIA SLI. This would surely impress a lot of users or not as Snow Leopard will be available in mid-2009 exactly when Larrabee will be launched and Intel’s GPU is based on a many-core x86 multiprocessor(!). However, another chipset that destroys the rumors is Intel’s Nehalem that will be out by the end of this year.
As for laptops, Apple could replace Intel only for MacBook Air as they could use better integrated graphics processors as some say that Intel’s Core 2 Duo are not so capable. However, NVIDIA should decrease their packages in order to match Intel’s reduced-footprint packages which is a hard thing to do.
Personally, I agree with Jon Stokes and I don’t know why Apple would consider to replace Intel chipsets because those are good just like that and, IMHO, AMD chipsets could never meet the expectations (I prefer VIA chipsets). I guess it remains to see if the rumors could become a reality or if they are meant to do harm.
Ars Technica
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