Apple is preparing to unleash “revolutionary” new Mac hardware that will include graphic chips made by Nvidia, a number of job vacancy listings recently posted by Nvidia suggest.
The listings call out for software engineers that will join the company’s Mac graphic drivers team. Successful applicants will “help produce the next revolutionary Apple products”, boast the listings, which were initially noticed by Bloomberg.
Apple has resisted integrating Nvidia graphics chips into several recent generations of Mac models; the graphic chips in current Macs come from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. And, with a new MacBook Pro potentially just weeks from unveil, Nvidia graphics are unlikely to feature in that.
The timing of the job listings instead suggests that Nvidia graphics chips will not reappear in the Mac line for at least another few months. AppleInsider has speculated that, given how power- and space-hungry Nvidia’s discrete graphics would be, they would likely feature only in higher-end Macs, like the 15-inch MacBook Pro and the Mac Pro.