Apple Eyes Nvidia NVLink Fusion for AI Server Return
Apple has discussed using Nvidia's NVLink Fusion networking technology in a planned AI inference server powered by its own chips, The Information reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter — a development that would mark Apple's first serious return to the enterprise server market since it killed the Xserve line fifteen years ago. Reuters carried the report but cautioned that it has not independently verified it, and both Apple and Nvidia declined to comment. That caveat matters and we are putting it first: this is a single sourced report about a product that does not exist yet, may never exist, and is reportedly not expected before 2029. But the reported details are specific enough — and the strategic implications large enough — to be worth taking seriously. File photo: an Apple Xserve cluster — Apple's last commercial server line, discontinued in 2011. (Photo: NASA via Wikimedia Commons, public domain) What The Information reported According to ...