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  • macOS 11.4 adds support for AMD 'Big Navi' 6800, 6800XT, 6900XT

    sevenfeetsevenfeet
    Could these drivers be used for eGPUs? Sure. But the real story as mentioned in the article is for Mac Pro users. Right now, the best graphics they can get are Vega IIs. Even though we know that Intel machines are dead technology walking, people (mostly businesses) purchased this machine to do real work over a multi-year period (3-5 years or longer). Even if Apple comes out with an M-powered Mac Pro that dusts the Intel version for performance and especially performance/watt, that doesn't change the fact that thousands of them are in the field doing real work right now. And when you ship an expensive machine with PCI slots and you control the graphics driver situation as tightly as you do, you (Apple) are the ones responsible to make sure these machines continue to have an upgrade path in their lifecycle.
    watto_cobra

  • Microsoft buys Siri speech recognition partner Nuance in $19.7B deal

    sevenfeetsevenfeet
    chadbag said:
    Anyone have any idea what this means?  

    “ ambient clinical intelligence for healthcare providers.”

    What is “ambient clinical intelligence?”   

    I work for a healthcare tech provider and am trying to understand that MS is saying.  
    Probably that they take a total view of clinical intelligence.  Substitute a buzz word like "360" and you've got the basic meaning.
    watto_cobra

  • Microsoft buys Siri speech recognition partner Nuance in $19.7B deal

    sevenfeetsevenfeet
    While this is interesting from an Apple standpoint, the deal really isn’t about Apple.  Two thirds of Nuance’s revenue comes from health care applications of its speech and supporting AI software. This is really about Microsoft expanding into the healthcare space and perhaps using Nuance’s AI software more broadly in other applications.
    watto_cobra

  • Adobe releases public beta of Premiere Pro for Apple Silicon

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    rob53 said:
    bsbeamer said:
    This is good news for macOS moving forward, even if it's going to take awhile to transition there.  Do not see abandoning Intel-based machines for production work anytime in the next 12-18 months, but 18-24 months should look fairly promising as additional AS machines are released.  Fingers crossed we are not losing chunks of functionality in the process/transition.  
    Not an Adobe user (anymore) but it does show how much influence Apple has on the market by forcing Adobe to hurry up and get their code ready for when the iMac and Mac Pro are released with Apple's M-series SoCs. Personally, I don't think you'll have to wait 18-24 months for Apple to release these Macs but you might have to wait for Adobe to complete their transition from their antique code base. It might take that long for plug-in vendors to complete the transition but if they were programming for macOS the correct way, the transition shouldn't be that bad.

    Isn't Apple having another announcement any time??? Like in late March. One of these rumors will actually come true. Can't wait to see benchmarks, including Premiere, blow away Intel-based Macs. It's been too long for a change and Apple's entry level M1 shows what a quantum leap ASi already makes. 
    Premiere Pro dates back nearly 20 years having launched in 2003 and its predecessor Adobe Premiere was released 30 years ago. Which means that it's one of those apps that has survived the transition from 68K -> PowerPC and PowerPC -> Intel before now. While I wouldn't expect 30 year old code to still be lurking in there, I'm sure there is lots of older Objective-C code that will need to be examined. And for problematic stuff, there's always the opportunity for a Swift migration, which takes time.
    fastasleepwatto_cobra

  • Intel wants to manufacture Apple Silicon

    sevenfeetsevenfeet
    If Intel could actually make chips according to Apple's specifications, I'm sure they would use them. Why?

    1. Apple isn't sentimental. It's business.
    2. Samsung has made Apple's supply chain parts for years and still do. They fight tooth and nail in the phone market but cooperate on things like OLED screens.
    3. Apple always wants a second source for everything in the supply chain, if possible. Having a single source vendor breeds in potential shortages to the process.

    Having said that, Apple would be wary of Intel having access to Apple's IP and reverse engineering it for their own chips. Intel recently bought a chip company just for the talent since that talent used to make Apple A-series chips....and Apple is suing. TSMC is just a foundry and doesn't have this competitive problem.
    revenantwatto_cobra