Apple Develops 2029 AI Server With Up to 4 M8 Ultra Chips
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Updated · Ars Technica · Sep 16
Apple Develops 2029 AI Server With Up to 4 M8 Ultra Chips
3 articles · Updated · Ars Technica · Sep 16
Summary
Apple is building an enterprise AI server for a possible 2029 launch, its first server product in nearly 20 years.
The machine would come in two configurations using either two or four future M8 Ultra chips, extending the high-end M-series processors now used in Mac desktops.
John Ternus backed the project when it began about a year ago, before he became Apple’s new CEO, according to The Information.
Demand from AI developers appears to be driving the push: OpenAI has bought tens of thousands of Mac minis and Mac Studios for reinforcement-learning workloads, while Anthropic has rented Mac minis from AWS.
The effort would mark Apple’s return to a market it exited after retiring the Xserve line in 2011, as AI computing demand reshapes enterprise hardware.