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Not to kick a dead horse lol but .. by Only have a single Video chipset vendor Apple Removed one source of competition and innovation. I kind of Like it that AMD and Intel have to Fight each other for market share.
That's what Apple is doing with their M1/M2/etc. processors - and it will keep Both AMD and Intel .. worried and Innovating!
I'm a bit of a believer in free markets and wish Apple hadn't basically killed the nVidia chipset market for Apple. I don't play games but understand it was preferred if you had the money and it was Certainly preferred for any 3d rendering by all the major players.
I think Nvidia shot themselves in the foot with unreliable hardware. If they didn't have all those hardware failures, Apple may have stuck with them longer.
Even after Apple stopped offering Nvidia options from the factory, Nvidia still sold video cards to Mac/hackintosh users and offered web drivers available for download. That's why Pascal cards worked in Mac OS X. But they decided to drop those efforts.
As far as I know, Cuda is still the most popular GPGPU platform. But even when Nvidia GPUs were available as an option from Apple, Cuda was never supported out of the box. Users had to use Nvidia's web drivers to get Cuda support.
Had Intel not sat on their hands for so long, I don't even know if Apple Silicon Macs would exist. Intel has no one to blame but themselves for the resurgence of AMD and the rise of Apple Silicon.