Apple to use it’s own server chips

[Nycturne]

Are you suggesting Linux on Apple Silicon? To me, it's something of a given that once they committed to AS hardware, they'd use a Darwin-based OS. Linux on AS is too rough to use at scale like this. They'd have a lot of extra work to do on fully integrating key AS features and security hardening.

No. I’m suggesting that doing AS in the cloud is a bunch of custom work to get access to a specific compute resource. And that Apple has a lot of experience at this point managing non-Apple hardware in the datacenter that it’s not completely out of line to just deploy onto more common server hardware.

Again, I’m not suggesting Apple wouldn’t use AS, just that I don’t think it’s a slam dunk proposition.

As I think about it though, I wonder how much they can build on top of whatever they did to enable Xcode cloud…