Apple has been developing chips to run artificial intelligence software in data centers, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.
Project ACDC (Apple Chips in Data Center), which has been in the works for several years, has no clear timeline, WSJ reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
WSJ said Apple's server chip will likely be focused on AI inference, rather than on training AI models — an area which experts have said will continue to be dominated by American chip giant Nvidia.
In AI, inference is the process that trained machine learning models use to draw conclusions from brand-new data.
Other large tech companies, such as Google, have invested in the development of their own AI inference server chips as part of efforts to untether themselves from chip designers.
Organizations:
Apple, Wall Street, Data, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, Nvidia, Google
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American