Paul Taylor the Inquirer, Tuesday 14 October 2008. 16:51:00

Crystal Balls Less is more, come Snow Leopard

WITH THE RUMOUR mill on overdrive, one bit of info rings true in the misty FUD-o’-war: Apple adding Nvidia chipsets to its feature list. The reason for this is simple: Apple has been making the case for Open CL since it announced its Snow Leopard back in June. Simply put, it needs Nvidia’s CUDA to enable Open CL. This makes it a reasonable assumption that Apple chooses to stick with Nvidia chipsets and GPUs, not just in the mobile but desktop market. Should you not have noticed the Open CL footnote on the Snow Leopard announcement, Open CL is the CUDA/GPGPU end of business inside the OS….



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