News Apple has allegedly approached Foxconn and Lenovo to build AI servers based on Apple Silicon

[Admin]

Apple asks Foxconn to produce AI servers based on Apple Silicon in Taiwan to to leverage R&D teams working with Nvidia, according to the report.

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[abufrejoval]

Apple's belief in the greatness of their goods is probably easier to understand now that they keep going in circles and see nothing but each other and their own stuff.

And yes, at least the Ultra variants might give you similar inference performance to an RTX 4070, while they don't pay customer prices for their hardware.

The main issue that I see is that this is a single scaling point and rather at the current lower end: I can't see it taking them forward very far or being a smart choice when the hardware and software evolution for ML is so fast.

So are they really so single minded or perhaps desperate to scale their chip production to make it more economical?

In the latter case they could just sell the chips to OEMs doing Linux and Windows hardware.

I see this as a sign of economic pressure more than the smartest way to go.

 

[subspruce]

Apple's belief in the greatness of their goods is probably easier to understand now that they keep going in circles and see nothing but each other and their own stuff.

And yes, at least the Ultra variants might give you similar inference performance to an RTX 4070, while they don't pay customer prices for their hardware.

The main issue that I see is that this is a single scaling point and rather at the current lower end: I can't see it taking them forward very far or being a smart choice when the hardware and software evolution for ML is so fast.

So are they really so single minded or perhaps desperate to scale their chip production to make it more economical?

In the latter case they could just sell the chips to OEMs doing Linux and Windows hardware.

I see this as a sign of economic pressure more than the smartest way to go.

or bring Boot Camp to M-series Macs via Windows-on-ARM to make Mac more attractive

 

[why_wolf]

Makes sense. Apple doesn't want to pay Nvidia margins. Build and design it themselves will result in billion dollar savings in the long run.

 

[eTomm]

Despite making sense for Apple, or being a pressure from a market decision to make their chips more economic, choosing Apple hardware for AI would not make sense as a customer, seen the past bad behaviors of Apple in support, in open standards and out of market prices.

I would never buy Apple hardware for such a usage.