Nvidia, Apple noticeably absent from Intel-led chiplet interconnect collaboration

Nvidia's absence from an Intel-led effort among industry players to develop next-gen chips with a more vibrant mix of cores is raising questions about the GPU maker's chiplet strategy, particularly regarding the integration of graphics when it comes to future PC processors. Essentially, Intel and its friends this week launched …

[mark l 2]

Since Apple only makes chips to go into their own products unlike everyone else on that list who have signed up to support UCIe whose chips then go into kit manufactured by other companies, I don't see Apple not being part of it as a big deal as to whether UCIe becomes an industry standard or not.

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Apple only make chips for their own computers now.

They aren't going to making SoCs for Samsung or selling M1 cpu Dell laptops

But they don't have a cloud business so a deal with NVidia to put an M1 on a GPU for machine learning in the cloud could work for everyone.

Except at the moment I suspect Apple can use all the chips TSMC can build

[DS999]

Apple has already made it pretty clear they are not going to be using third party GPUs at all in Apple Silicon Macs. Even the Mac Pro will use Apple's GPU.

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

I meant they might supply M1 cores to NVidia to use in NVidia's supercomputer/cloud GPUs

It doesn't compete with Apple's products and it gives them extra volume to justify more R&D by Apple and TSMC.

[Dave 126]

Maybe, but would an M1 / Nvidia package attract enough developers to be worth the effort?

Also, a lot of the M1 chip (its not just a CPU) would be redundant in a server, and its GPU would be redundant if mated with a (more powerful) Nvidia GPU.