Loving the idea: Apple enters HPC with "custom" GPU's and Thunderbolt optical cables

There is a barely marketed GPU designer called Imagination Technologies. But they are selling more GPU licenses than ARM.

Their PowerVR SGX 5 series of GPU's are able of great 3D graphics as seen on the iPhone and iPad, and other copycat devices.

Apple has some shares on the company, and I've read that they have already licensed the PowerVR SGX 6 series.

Imagination Technologies say that their SGX 6 series GPU's will be extremely scalable, up to a point that they will be able to do some PCIe dGPU's competing with AMD and NVIDIA, and outperforming them on performance/watt (key question today).

Apple (say Steve Jobs) loves to control all the basic technologies on their products, and love to power optimize whatever they can control. So what a good deal.

The GPU availability on the Mac Pro is on my personal opinion pathetic. What am I doing with a 5000€ machine if I can only put a single Radeon HD 5870 with ONLY 1GB of GDDR5. There isn't even an GTX 4 or GTX 5 series offering!! It's clear that they need to do something. To quit the sever business, or  to do something revolutionary.

Well, I wonder what will be possible with a SGX 600MP? How many cores? How many watts? And how many GPU chips in a single slot PCIe card? Will Apple design a GPU interconnect like SLI or CrossFire? A Torus like interconnect would be crazy love for computational codes, much like the brand new Japanese Fujitsu K System (wow!! SPARC is not dead!! Is on 1st position in the top500 list!!).

And if like some sources say, the new Mac Pro will be optionally rack mounted, that can make a lot of sense. Tremendous Graphics and Processing power with no competence. That would be pretty for the marketing. And Apple would have a bigger piece of the product cake. Juicy!!

What about the Intel MIC?? I've seen it 1 minute ago from ISC 11. We'll see. Maybe this will be another option. Who knows.

I can't wait!!