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by _gfrc 3371 days ago
This doesn't come very surprising to me, as Apple has been in talks to acquire Imagination Technologies but has decided not to: https://arstechnica.com/apple/2016/03/apple-acquire-imaginat...

I don't know the reason, but I suppose it is the same reason why they decided to build their own gpu independently. Apple also already own(s/ed?) a part of Imagination Technologies.
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masklinn 3371 days ago
The rumors about Apple working on GPU cores internally long predate the Imagination "talks" (which were apparently rather shallow). In fact significant Imagination employees started leaving for Apple since at least 2015: Dave Roberts (senior design manager) left in October 2015[0] and Jonathan Redshaw (VP hardware engineering) left in November 2015[1]

[0] https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-roberts-9ba859a6

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-redshaw-30400990

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_gfrc 3371 days ago
Exactly. Maybe they figured that they already hired the key personnel, so there was no need to buy the whole company any longer.
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