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Companies buying massive cloud scale server hardware want to be able to choose from a dozen different Taiwanese motherboard manufacturers. Apple is in no way mo
by walrus01 2y ago
Companies buying massive cloud scale server hardware want to be able to choose from a dozen different Taiwanese motherboard manufacturers. Apple is in no way motivated to release or sell the M3/M4 CPUs as a product that major east asia motherboard manufacturers can design their own platform for. Apple is highly invested in tightly integrated ecosystems where everything is soldered down together in one package as a consumer product (take a look at a macbook air or pro motherboard for instance).
- vineyardmike 2y ago…Apple has made rack-mounted computers in recent history. They don’t sell chips, they sell complete boxes with rack mount hardware, motherboard and all. https://www.apple.com/shop/product/G1720LL/A/Refurbished-Mac-Pro-Rack-Apple-M2-Ultra-with-24-core-CPU-and-60-core-GPU https://www.apple.com/shop/product/G1720LL/A/Refurbished-Mac...
- walrus01 2y agoAn extremely niche product for things like video editing studios, not something you can deploy at scale in colocation/datacenter environments. Literally never seen rackmounted apple hardware in a serious datacenter since the apple xserve 20 to 22 years ago.