Apple to use it’s own server chips

[Cmaier]

I bet a lot of people would love to buy xserves with these chips if apple would sell them to us.

Bloomberg: iOS 18 AI tech to rely on data centers with Apple silicon - 9to5Mac

Apple plans to use its own high-end Apple silicon chips in data centers designed to power its upcoming iOS 18 AI features.

9to5mac.com

 

[Jimmyjames]

i wonder if they are using macOS on these or Linux (Asahi)?

 

[Yoused]

I wonder if the servers are boxes of blades.

 

[Cmaier]

I wonder if the servers are boxes of blades.

i would think so. I think these are M2 ultras, or something very close to those, and they should be able to achieve fairly high density in a rack, assuming custom cooling, given the thermals.

 

[jbailey]

i wonder if they are using macOS on these or Linux (Asahi)?

Apple is quite capable of writing a scalable and performant version of Darwin. I pretty sure they will not use Asahi.

 

[MacPoulet]

I bet a lot of people would love to buy xserves with these chips if apple would sell them to us.

Bloomberg: iOS 18 AI tech to rely on data centers with Apple silicon - 9to5Mac

Apple plans to use its own high-end Apple silicon chips in data centers designed to power its upcoming iOS 18 AI features.

9to5mac.com

It won’t be the same, their jet turbines fans won’t be as loud.

 

[theorist9]

If this application could also benefit from Extreme-class chips, that would reduce or eliminate one of the main barriers to seeing these in the Mac Pro: Insufficient volume to justify the development costs.

 

[B01L]

Apple ASi AI Server

• Rackmount Chassis
• M4 Ultra SoC
• ASi GPU/NPU Blades
• ???

While I would love to see a M4 Extreme SoC, I kinda feel like we will not see such a beast until the M5-series of SoCs on 2nm...?