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I wish apple would consider creating a rack-mount server to compete with Intel. They clearly have the silicon expertise to mint their own CPUs. I realize this
by someguydave 8y ago
I wish apple would consider creating a rack-mount server to compete with Intel. They clearly have the silicon expertise to mint their own CPUs. I realize this isn't a sexy industry with lots of growth, but neither is the phone market anymore.
- aantix 8y ago10 years ago they use to?
- bluedino 8y agoIsn't the general server market dying because of the cloud?
- pram 8y agoThe Xserve ecosystem used to be pretty neat, but I doubt it was very profitable. It’s hard to compete against cheap commodity servers like supermicro and such.
- wklauss 8y agoI think a case could be made about being in not-so-profitable industries if it helps support your whole business.
- rtkwe 8y agoHas Apple really done much on high TPD chips? The only ones we've really seen them make are low power draw mobile chips for their phones. The rest they just use Intel chips for all their laptops and even the iMac. I don't really see them doing it because it's not somewhere they can really get away with their usual "we control the whole stack and you can only run our software on our hardware (legally)" mess they pull with macOS.
- pcr0 8y ago> I realize this isn't a sexy industry with lots of growth, but neither is the phone market anymore. Samsung figured this out already. Their proportion of revenue from phones is decreasing while their semiconductor business is growing leaps and bounds.
- cik 8y agoPlease, not again. Their server hardware was such crap, and OSX really just isn't a great server OS.
- partiallypro 8y agoHaving previously had experience with their old server line, I'd prefer they don't enter the space.