Summary
- Apple is discussing a technology partnership with Nvidia as it weighs an entry into the AI server market.
- Apple is reviewing the adoption of NVLink Fusion, Nvidia's high-speed interconnect technology, to improve connectivity among its in-house server chips.
- The server Apple is developing is aimed at the AI inference market, and it could be released as early as 2029.
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Apple is discussing a technology partnership with Nvidia as it considers entering the artificial intelligence server market, The Information reported.
The technology news outlet reported on September 16 that Apple is reviewing whether to adopt Nvidia's high-speed interconnect technology, NVLink Fusion, to improve connectivity among its in-house server chips.
NVLink Fusion is designed to connect chips including a company's own central processing units, AI accelerators and Nvidia graphics processing units. The technology links multiple chips with high bandwidth and low latency to improve the efficiency of AI computing.
The server Apple is developing is aimed at the AI inference market, which processes user requests rather than training AI models. The Information said Apple could release the server as early as 2029.
