Apple has taken several kicks at that can over the last couple decades and each time it's been a flop. Not because the hardware wasn't good, but because it's just not the kind of market that makes sense for them and their business model. They're not interested in low-margin commodity bulk product.

They're a luxury brand and they make money off of selling personal lifestyle computers. Often good quality, and, yes, the M1 looks fantastic (literally just bought my wife a new M1 MacBook Air) but this is a company that doesn't even really sell a commodity desktop machine. I cannot see them going head to head against SuperMicro.

Maybe, _maybe_, they'd license M1 out, but I doubt it.