How oxide cuts data center power consumption in half

I'm amazed Apple don't have a rack mount version of their M series chips yet.

Even for their own internal use in their data centers they'd have to save an absolute boat load on power and cooling given their performance per watt compared to legacy stuff.

Companies buying massive cloud scale server hardware want to be able to choose from a dozen different Taiwanese motherboard manufacturers. Apple is in no way motivated to release or sell the M3/M4 CPUs as a product that major east asia motherboard manufacturers can design their own platform for. Apple is highly invested in tightly integrated ecosystems where everything is soldered down together in one package as a consumer product (take a look at a macbook air or pro motherboard for instance).

…Apple has made rack-mounted computers in recent history. They don’t sell chips, they sell complete boxes with rack mount hardware, motherboard and all.

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