Apple May Return to Server Market with Nvidia Technology

18 pointsposted 18 hours ago
by tosh

17 Comments

joshstrange

17 hours ago

Nvidia and Apple and Server hardware. What an unlikely combo, I would never have put money on that happening. Heck, neither Apple+Nvidia nor Apple+(publically available)-server-hardware were something I would have guessed.

But I think the future is local inference and I'd love to have Apple as another contender in this space.

usui

17 hours ago

Nvidia is the Apple of GPUs, so it's quite an apt pair

dwaite

14 hours ago

The article says they are exploring Nvidia networking, not GPUs

ksec

16 hours ago

Makes very little sense to me. As much as I want a Xserve, I don't see how Apple has a competitive advantage for the target market.

Nvidia already or will definitely make a product that will compete with Apple, as they are moving towards full integration. They also owns the networking, GPU, CPU, and other parts as well. Apple's only advantage is M8 potentially being slightly faster and macOS. Neither is a moat for the intended market.

BugsJustFindMe

17 hours ago

> "M8 processors"

> "potential release date in 2029, but it could be canceled before then."

It seems unreasonable to care about this so soon.

LoganDark

16 hours ago

I feel this in general these days. Once again I would love some sort of news outlet or aggregator that only posts about things that have already happened, as opposed to things years into the future.

GuestFAUniverse

17 hours ago

If they start again, they wasted 15y of not gaining more experience in that field.

How will they grow the necessary _mature_ software? It takes decades for a filesystem to mature. Their system tools are a mixed bag: some things are outstanding, others are clown car level abominations that need interactive input.

dwaite

14 hours ago

Anyone with access to the article know what their sources are on this?

This seems pretty out there compared to say adopting UALink.

seabre

16 hours ago

Has Apple patched the 49 day integer overflow TCP timestamp clock bug yet?

sschueller

17 hours ago

I wonder how many fools will get burned again after last time.

iAMkenough

16 hours ago

YES! The NVIDIA bubble grows larger. What multi-billion dollar company isn't trading money back and forth with NVIDIA now?

cucumber3732842

15 hours ago

>What multi-billion dollar company isn't trading money back and forth with NVIDIA now?

Waste Management

nxobject

15 hours ago

Oooh, you can still go even more vanilla. Berkshire Hathaway?

iAMkenough

14 hours ago

Give it time…

I’ve read people are installing GPUs in their vehicles for aftermarket assisted-driving systems like Comma.ai

Sorting facilities also are increasingly utilizing computer vision to keep trash out of recycling processing.

cucumber3732842

11 hours ago

Pretty much all freight rail is already entangled with AI. I assume it's just a matter of time for stuff like WM.

Danox

17 hours ago

Hope not sounds very circular in a AI model maker fashion, at this point in time Apple doesn’t need Nvidia for anything let the current AI gang buying Nvidia hardware and software, bubble burst and just stay back and enjoy the show.