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Apple considers acquiring server chip companies
Apple is exploring acquisitions of chip startups to bolster its struggling in-house AI server processors, which currently rely on repurposed M2 Ultra chips; its custom Baltra chip co-developed with Broadcom has been delayed, forcing Apple to offload large language model inference to Nvidia and Google Cloud.
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The Wire takeaway
If you've built inference silicon or optimised server chips, Apple just signalled it's buying rather than waiting for Baltra to ship. Your startup has a live acquirer in the market with $45bn in cash and a demonstrated weakness it needs to fix this quarter.
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Topics: Semiconductors · AI Infrastructure · ai-chips · server-processors · make-vs-buy · inference-silicon · chip-startups