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This post hints at something that I've thought might be Apple's potential answer to "how will it make economical sense to make workstation-grade CPUs for the hi
by fnordsensei 6y ago
This post hints at something that I've thought might be Apple's potential answer to "how will it make economical sense to make workstation-grade CPUs for the higher end of the Mac line, given the amount of such units sold?"
The potential answer is to go AWS. Build up a cloud platform using the same CPUs, move all Apple cloud infrastructure onto it, rent the rest of the capacity out to the public.
With this, plus the sales from high-end Macs/MacBooks, the R&D overhead for high end CPUs might make sense.
- jamil7 6y agoDo you think they have the kind of culture and experience inhouse to pull something like that off? I'm skeptical that it's in Apple's wheelhouse but it'd be interesting to see.
- fnordsensei 6y agoI honestly don't know, it just made sense as a possible solution given the limited insight I have. Before AWS, I didn't expect Amazon to become the power that it is with regards to cloud either. Perhaps Apple can provide some unique attributes of cloud infrastructure that's specifically useful to people who otherwise operate within their ecosystem, without feeling like they need to compete with Amazon/Google/MS in every aspect.
- ed25519FUUU 6y agoAmazon is already investing heavily in the graviton line of server-grade ARM64 CPUs, so there’s no need for any partnership.
- Joeri 6y agoFor software dev I think this is the long term trend: run everything including the editor in the cloud, have just a cheap dumb terminal with you. Audio and video on the ither hand are very latency-sensitive. Physics may prevent bringing those things to the cloud.