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Apple's MLX adding CUDA support

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548 points nsagent | 1 comments | 14 Jul 25 21:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.887s | source
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qwertox ◴[15 Jul 25 06:07 UTC] No.44568293[source]▶
If Apple would support Nvidia cards it would be the #1 solution for developers.
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Nevermark ◴[15 Jul 25 06:16 UTC] No.44568349[source]▶
If Apple doubled the specs of their Ultra M processor every year, in numbers of cores, RAM cells, internal and external bandwidth, until both the Ultra processor and its RAM plane took up full wafers, .... but still fit in a Mac Studio case, with a new white reverse-power heat extraction USB-C+ cable designed to be terminated at a port on a small wireless heat exchanger dish, which instantly beamed all the waste heat into space, at such high efficiency that the Studio internals could operate at -100 Celsius, and all those cores overclocked, oh they over clocked, ...

Yes we can dream!

It would great if Apple continues pushing M processors to next levels, in part, to go vertical into the cloud.

Or if they start supporting nVidia.

The latter seems less Apple-y. But they must be considering the value of a cloud level Apple-friendly AI computing solution, so something is likely (?) to happen.

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1. bigyabai ◴[17 Jul 25 19:51 UTC] No.44597433[source]▶
Nvidia already maintains BSD-native drivers that macOS can use. The only work Apple has to do is implement EGLStream in Quartz, which is probably already done. And even that isn't necessary to get CUDA or video acceleration working. In theory, the only thing stopping Nvidia from putting those features on macOS is signed driver code.

It's not rocket science, nobody has to "dream" for such an ordinary feature. On Linux and Windows it's treated as table-stakes, which is part of why they're desirable cloud OSes and macOS isn't. Apple certainly knows as much, it's not like they have customers begging to bring back Xserve.