http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/03/18/iphone-graphics-may-get-multiprocessor-performance-upgrade/ Daniel Eran Dilger in San Francisco Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:03:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/03/18/iphone-graphics-may-get-multiprocessor-performance-upgrade/comment-page-1/#comment-17902 droughtquake Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:31:15 +0000 http://www.roughlydrafted.com/?p=3340#comment-17902 Could Apple possibly use future versions of the chips in MacBook & mini replacements? Could Apple possibly use future versions of the chips in MacBook & mini replacements?

]]> http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/03/18/iphone-graphics-may-get-multiprocessor-performance-upgrade/comment-page-1/#comment-17898 StrictNon-Conformist Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:11:37 +0000 http://www.roughlydrafted.com/?p=3340#comment-17898 This development is of greatest value to Apple only if they can exercise enough influence somehow to keep Imagination from selling their multicore tile processing to other mobile manufacturers: while Apple would seem to have a huge advantage with the upcoming OS X changes to take advantage of such hardware via a nice API, if there's enough interest in such capabilities for other phones, other manufacturers will be all over SMP GP-GPU hardware on phones, too. Of course, just having hardware tech isn't enough: the software infrastructure/platform needs to be executed properly, too, in terms of it being solid software, and also in getting developers to sign on and actually use it: this is what Apple has going for it the most with the iPhone OS, is that as of now, there's around 30 million almost identical devices using it, making a large easy to hit target, especially including the development tools available. This development is of greatest value to Apple only if they can exercise enough influence somehow to keep Imagination from selling their multicore tile processing to other mobile manufacturers: while Apple would seem to have a huge advantage with the upcoming OS X changes to take advantage of such hardware via a nice API, if there’s enough interest in such capabilities for other phones, other manufacturers will be all over SMP GP-GPU hardware on phones, too. Of course, just having hardware tech isn’t enough: the software infrastructure/platform needs to be executed properly, too, in terms of it being solid software, and also in getting developers to sign on and actually use it: this is what Apple has going for it the most with the iPhone OS, is that as of now, there’s around 30 million almost identical devices using it, making a large easy to hit target, especially including the development tools available.

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