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Apple used to sell servers. I don’t thing they should settle for “just use Linux” in such and important field.
by tambourine_man 3y ago
Apple used to sell servers. I don’t thing they should settle for “just use Linux” in such and important field.
- MBCook 3y agoWhy does the OS matter for training models? Apple would want to train models as fast as they could. Nvidia provides an off the shelf solution they can just buy and use for a very reasonable price and sell on the second hand market. If they wanted to use their own hardware they would either need more of it, which would cost a lot and divert production from sellable devices; or they would need to make special chips with much bigger neural engines, which would cost even more. Also Apple uses public clouds for service stuff. They may not even own any hardware and just be renting it from AWS/Azure/GCP for training.
- tambourine_man 3y agoI feel like I’ve answered the issues you raised in this thread already.
- hhh 3y ago> Used to Exactly, over a decade ago...