Apple May Return to Server Market With Nvidia Technology
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Apple is considering offering an AI server built around "M8" series chips and has discussed incorporating Nvidia networking hardware, The Information reports. The system would be sold to outside customers, potentially bringing Apple back into a business it left behind when it discontinued Xserve in 2011. Apple is reportedly targeting companies that want to run AI models on their own equipment, with a particular focus on inference and generating responses from trained models.
  • eicker@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    71·
    19 hours ago

    Apple returning to the server market would be quite the plot twist: after years of people building unofficial Mac Studio AI clusters, Apple may simply productize the idea. Dual or quad M8 Ultra systems, potentially connected via Nvidia NVLink Fusion, could make local AI infrastructure far more mainstream. The Mac Pro might finally have found its next job.

  • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    18 hours ago

    I can’t imagine anyone running server farms is particularly hyped about this

    Didn’t a load of them get burned pretty badly by apple killing off the last server line and Steve Jobs just told them to cry more when challenged about it

  • db2@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    15 hours ago

    Introducing 1 the Apple Xtra Xtreme Xserver, exclusively with subscriptions 2 available in Pro, Pro Plus, Xecutive One and Pro Xecutive One Plus! (wheels $799.99 extra 3)

    1 purchase of hardware does not imply ownership
    2 subscribing to service also agrees all data stored on or passing through will be used to train AI
    3 because fuck you that’s why

    edit: cry more Apple fanboys