Apple weighs return to server market with M8 Ultra AI machines, talks Nvidia networking

Apple’s Xserve
Apple is exploring a return to dedicated server hardware for the first time since it killed Xserve in 2011, developing enterprise AI inference systems around forthcoming M8 Ultra chips and discussing Nvidia’s NVLink Fusion to link those processors, according to a new report from The Information.
The planned machines would be sold to AI developers, businesses, and governments that want to run models on their own equipment rather than in the public cloud. Two configurati