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> How will Apple recoup the cost of designing a powerful chip for a product like the Mac Pro, which is presumably their lowest-selling product? In their own d
by bpye 4y ago
> How will Apple recoup the cost of designing a powerful chip for a product like the Mac Pro, which is presumably their lowest-selling product?
In their own datacentres?
- eptcyka 4y agoI am under the impression they do not run macOS in their own datacenters. And, unlike mortals, if they need to run macOS in datacenters, they're not bound by their own license to never virtualize macOS on non-macOS hosts, they can do as they please.
- sneak 4y agomacOS or Linux, it doesn't matter - all hyperscale datacenter operators are going to move as much as possible to the highest perf/watt platform (ie ARM). Apple is a hyperscale datacenter owner and operator, if only for iCloud. AWS is already doing so with Graviton. It has nothing to do with macOS. Graviton CPUs are not for sale. If Apple wants a million ARM cores to run iCloud, they are going to have to get TSMC to fab them.
- bpye 4y agoIn addition to the other reply - Apple definitely _do_ run macOS in a datacentre for Xcode Cloud [0]. 0 - https://twitter.com/khaost/status/1410332951963869185 https://twitter.com/khaost/status/1410332951963869185