Operations/watt, which is a function of power efficiency (i.e. how many floating point tera-ops can you do in 1 second), is the primary driving performance crit

Operations/watt, which is a function of power efficiency (i.e. how many floating point tera-ops can you do in 1 second), is the primary driving performance criteria and engineering metric for all modern desktop, server, and mobile platforms. There is almost no metric which matters more when it comes to high performance compute. That said, Apple isn't going to sell chips these to anyone else, period. And everyone right now is hustling to match the same levels of efficiency in newer designs, and they'll get there sooner or later. So "Apple Servers" are a completely moot point, but power efficiency? Yes, it literally matters more than ever, across every spectrum of the industry, and it's why the M1 was something people cared about anyway.