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Re:Asahi Linux for M1 Macs Progress October-November 2021 by monocasa on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @01:49PM (#29570060)
That's more of a 'if you have everything else in the data center, then you can have this too for consistency's sake' than something to move traditional data center workloads to.
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Re:Asahi Linux for M1 Macs Progress October-November 2021 by r00fus on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @03:47PM (#29571415)
The better example of ARM entrance to the datacenter is AWS Graviton. Apple could learn from Graviton to make its ARM cores significantly more datacenter friendly.

That said, I don't see Apple doing this unless they see it as a significant opportunity.

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Re:Asahi Linux for M1 Macs Progress October-November 2021 by monocasa on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @03:52PM (#29571483)
Apple hasn't seen fit to do that for their own data center parts yet (hence the job postings for qemu-kvm, and the xcode cloud running on x86_64 in a VM).

I don't think data center parts are on their radar at all.

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Re:Asahi Linux for M1 Macs Progress October-November 2021 by wtallis on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @05:44PM (#29572532)
For M1 Macs, isn't it everything but the ARM cores that is not datacenter-friendly - the memory capacity, the IO options, the system form factors?
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