Ampere switching to in-house CPU designs

Re:Ampere switching to in-house CPU designs by zaphirplane on Thursday May 20, 2021 @08:49AM (#27220425)

I’m no expert in the area, there must be someone in Apple doing a profit analysis on selling server cpu even if the profit is tiny the economy of scale alone carries a benign

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Re:Ampere switching to in-house CPU designs by Someone on Thursday May 20, 2021 @04:10PM (#27226516)

https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS47529021 says the server market is about 12 million servers in 2021. I don’t think you can call that “economy of scale”, compared to 200 million iPhones.

(I’m not sure whether that includes servers at large cloud providers, but I don’t think that matters. Unless there’s a huge performance advantage, I don’t see Amazon, Google or Microsoft buying Apple server CPUs)

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Re:Ampere switching to in-house CPU designs by bredren on Thursday May 20, 2021 @02:32PM (#27225192)

I’d expect Apple already has more than one proof-of-concept M1-based operational data centers.

If they are to be commercialized, I’d expect them to be part of a development stack related to Xcode, or some kind of AWS like services for applications developed for the Apple ecosystem.

Offering generalized compute would invite too much initial cost performance comparison and they couldn’t keep up with demand.

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Re:Ampere switching to in-house CPU designs by TradingPlaces on Thursday May 20, 2021 @09:40AM (#27220974)

Whatever goes in the Mac Pro will likely be as capable as x86 data center chips at a fraction of the power requirement. Whether they put it in a server is another question

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