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Am I crazy to think that the claim of private cloud compute running M chips is marketing fluff? Is their ARM based SoC really as performant as a GPU at the sca
by ydnaclementine 2y ago
Am I crazy to think that the claim of private cloud compute running M chips is marketing fluff? Is their ARM based SoC really as performant as a GPU at the scale they need?
- neilalexander 2y agoI think these days Apple Silicon is more of an umbrella term for the packaging of their CPUs, GPUs and NPUs.
- superlopuh 2y agoIf they wanted to, why wouldn't they make a modified, specialized, server rack version of their hardware?
- eddyg 2y agoInternally it’s Project ACDC – Apple Chips in Data Centers. https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/apple-is-developing-ai-chips-for-data-centers-seeking-edge-in-arms-race-0bedd2b2 https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/apple-is-developing-ai-chips-for...
- mkl 2y agohttps://archive.ph/p4iuu https://archive.ph/p4iuu No real details.
- steve1977 2y agoDoes it need to be? When they can use their own SoC servers, they don't have buy hardware from other vendors or rent cloud compute capacity. So it only needs to be so efficient that it will still cost less than those other options.
- xcv123 2y agoNo one said they are M chips. These would be custom made for servers and AI inferencing. Also note their "ARM based SoC" has a GPU with 800 GB/sec bandwidth in the M2 Ultra.
- ydnaclementine 2y agoNot that it's a real source, but TFA states: >These data centers will also run completely on Apple’s M chips
- xcv123 2y agoThat guy is just some random blogger and I wouldn't take that to literally mean they use the same chips as a Macbook. Apple only says they use "Apple Silicon". Common sense to assume it is designed for servers and AI inferencing.