By Darren Allan
It seems that when it comes to Apple’s computers, there may soon be a switch in the company providing discrete graphics solutions, with Nvidia potentially set to step in.
While the majority of Macs simply run with integrated graphics courtesy of Intel’s processors, those beefier models (or custom configured affairs) which do boast a separate GPU have their pixel-shifting power provided by AMD these days, with Nvidia not having been near an iMac or MacBook Pro for some time now. But all that could be about to change according to some job listings.
Bloomberg spotted three adverts for positions at Nvidia which mention Apple, all pertaining to software development for the Mac, with the most telling being a job for a ‘Metal Compute and OpenCL Software Engineer for Mac’.
The blurb says the successful applicant will be working in partnership with Apple to “define and shape the future of Metal and OpenCL on Mac OS X”, (we think perhaps the future might be with macOS rather than OS X, mind you), and he or she will “help produce the next revolutionary Apple products”.
Mac driver team
Another of the listings apparently calls for a software engineer working in the ‘Nvidia Mac …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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