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Intel announces USB 3.0 in "Ivy Bridge" and will support Thunderbolt

by David Winograd (Apr 14th, 2011)

"Intel is going to support USB 3.0 in the 2012 client platform. We're going to support Thunderbolt capability. We believe that they're complementary." CNET reported this remark from Kirk Sakaugen, a VP of the Intel Architecture group, in a presentation streamed from the Intel Developer ...

Mac OS X 10.6.7 suggests support for generic video cards

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 24th, 2011)

Hacker Tony of TonyMacx86 discovered that the latest Mac OS X 10.6.7 update for the 2011 MacBook Pro includes native graphics acceleration for select AMD and ATI video cards. These cards include seven Radeon 5xxx and three 6xxx models that are not present in any shipping Mac products. Several of ...

Sandy Bridge GPU may suffice for low-end Apple laptops, processor could show up sooner than expected

by Michael Rose (Dec 9th, 2010)

As we mentioned a couple of weeks ago, the first round of Sandy Bridge-powered PC laptops is about to hit the market. Intel's new chip architecture is intended to provide a major boost in power for mobile and desktop machines, but there's been some concern about the integrated GPU on these devices ...

Could AMD Fusion chips be coming to Macs?

by Sam Abuelsamid (Nov 12th, 2010)

Ever since Apple finally abandoned the PowerPC platform in favor of the x86 architecture, Macs have been exclusively powered by CPUs from Intel. Throughout that time, however, there has been speculation that Apple could dual source and use some of AMD's chips as well; that may have just been ...

Apple will design its own tablet Mac chips

by Casey Johnston (Jul 15th, 2009)

Rumors have been crisscrossing the Internet about actions by Apple that point tellingly to the advent of an Apple tablet, or some kind of outsize iPod touch. VentureBeat is speculating that Apple may use chips they have developed themselves in the imminent $800 tablet computer. Following some of ...

Apple rumored not to renew contract with NVIDIA for graphics chips

by Casey Johnston (Jul 2nd, 2009)

The relationship between Apple and NVIDIA, the manufacturer of the graphics chips in most Macs for quite some time now, appears to be souring at an exponential rate. Electronista reports that negotiations between the two companies to continue their business relationship are not going well, with ...

WSJ: Apple moving into chip design

by Michael Rose (Apr 29th, 2009)

Papermaster. Drebin. Koduri. A law firm specializing in intellectual property? The backcourt starters for the Toronto Raptors? Three key graphics-chip experts now all on the Apple payroll? If you had option C on your answer card, congratulations: now you get to join the WSJ and Forbes in reading the ...

Rumors: AMD Apple Laptop?

by Erica Sadun (Nov 16th, 2006)

Is an AMD Apple laptop in the works? That's the rumor that DigiTimes Systems published yesterday. According to Digitimes, Taiwan component makers are seeing increased orders for a kind of capacitor to be used in an AMD-based Apple notebook. In September, AMD CEO Hector Ruiz speculated that Apple and ...

AMD CEO: AMD + Apple inevitable

by David Chartier (Sep 21st, 2006)

During an Intel-bashing session at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, The CEO of AMD, Hector Ruiz, whined remarked that an AMD + Apple partnership is in their cards: "Knowing Apple, why would they want to be held hostage like everyone else has been?" Of course, Apple wasn't available to comment ...

NVIDIA is happy about AMD + ATI merger

by David Chartier (Jul 26th, 2006)

FiringSquad, a site covering all things gaming, interviewed Derek Perez, the Director of Public Relations for NVIDIA (ATI's largest competitor), about yesterday's news of the AMD and ATI merger. Mr. Perez looks at the merger as a boost to their own business, excited that NVIDIA will be the only GPU ...

AMD acquires ATI for $5.4 billion

by David Chartier (Jul 24th, 2006)

AMD, the #2 CPU maker in the world, has announced a purchase of ATI, a leading graphics card manufacturer, for $5.4 billion. IMG has more details on the buyout and the business end of things, but we're more interested in finding out what exactly this means for the Mac market. ATI currently supplies ...

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