> In short, I don’t currently understand why Apple would build datacenters around its own chips, instead of using chips better-suited to the tasks being asked of them.
> Perhaps the company will announce that it has designed a new server chip<p>Yeah, why not? There are plenty of reasons why they don't want to be just another NVIDIA customer, and beyond their own internal use, I could certainly imagine them offering an "AI accelerator" board in the Mac Pro.