David Loring: Apple Silicon simply not make sense for servers. He says the company doesn't want to give their chips to anybody else because why would they? And B, the chips Apple makes are highly custom tailored to exactly what they want like specifically and that is basically useless to most servers. So no, we're not interested in your chip," he said.
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- Follow-up:
- Casey’s no-good, very bad day 😭😬
#askatp
:
- Is Time Machine really useful anymore, anyway? (via Dan Provost)
- Could a third-party ARM chip end up in a Mac Pro? (via Torb)
- Servers love large CPUs; could Apple use Apple Silicon in servers? (via David Loring)
- Could Apple make a hyper-fast “drive” to sorta-kinda expand RAM? (via Patrick Melody)
- Why no dual-socket CPU in the Mac Pro? (via Aryan Aneja)
- Does the Mac Pro really have an “super car” attributes anymore? (via Jan Lehnardt)
- Is the Vision Pro now the “halo car”? (via David Saunders)
- Post-show: Marco’s update
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