alt Hacker NewsA consumer computer company is not going to push people towards building a miniature HPC cluster. Closest we'll ever get to that is multiple GPUs for video games.*
*Nvidia is no longer a primarily consumer company, so all the other GPU stuff is no counterpoint
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> A consumer computer company
Apple isn't a just a consumer computer company. Both iPhones and Macs have very large business markets. In fact, I'd argue that the primary reason Apple hasn't locked down MacOS as much as iOS is that it'd absolutely kill the demand from software developers.
Apple isn’t really a consumer company. It does both consumer and enterprise stuff. Just look at all the fleet management stuff it does for ios and mac os.
And besides that, high end macbook prod and studios are workstation-class computers, not consumer-level computers.
The second I saw llms run on gpus i started trying to predict the last year that nvidia produces a consumer GPU product.
One could argue that if you are buying 512gb RAM machines you are not a typical consumer.