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without actually manufacturing or using anything of it. As I know, facebook still buys very plain OEM servers from Quanta This is false, as you can see fr
by jauer 8y ago
without actually manufacturing or using anything of it.
As I know, facebook still buys very plain OEM servers from Quanta
This is false, as you can see from publicly available pictures of FB datacenters. Facebook purchases OCP servers from ODMs.
- vernie 8y agoODMs or OEMs?
- btashton 8y agoODM - Original Design Manufacturer, the specifications and some design work is done by FB and then this company goes and actually designs and builds the equipment that FB buys.
- Twirrim 8y agoODMs = System Integrators, if you're familiar with that term instead? There's several companies that will do large scale bespoke-design server manufacturing and assembly work. Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft et al. all order servers through them that are built to specifications their hardware engineers have designed (usually in collaboration with them). Once you get above a certain scale, the value proposition of OEMs goes out the window.