{"slug": "apple-reportedly-building-server-packed-with-m-series-ultra-chips-for-ai", "title": "Apple reportedly building server packed with M-series Ultra chips for AI", "summary": "Apple is developing an enterprise AI server that would use two or four of its future M8 Ultra chips, with an expected release in 2029, according to The Information. The project reportedly received support from new Apple CEO John Ternus when it began a year ago, while he led Apple's hardware engineering efforts. The move follows booming sales of Apple's Mac mini and Mac Studio, which AI companies including OpenAI have bought in \"tens of thousands\" to train AI agents through reinforcement learning, and which Anthropic has rented from Amazon Web Services.", "body_md": "Apple is working on an AI server that would use Apple’s high-performance M-series Ultra chips found in Mac desktops. The potential product’s expected release in 2029 would mark the first Apple server to hit the market in nearly two decades—and could capitalize on the surging popularity of Apple hardware among AI developers.\n\nThe enterprise server would come in two configurations that include either two or four of Apple’s future M8 Ultra chips, [according to The Information](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-considers-return-server-market-talked-nvidia-use-network-tech). The project reportedly received support from [new Apple CEO John Ternus](https://arstechnica.com/tag/john-ternus/) when it began a year ago, back when Ternus led Apple’s hardware engineering efforts.\n\nThis revelation coincides with booming sales for Apple’s Mac mini and Mac Studio as AI developers and companies snap up the Mac computers to run AI workloads. The popularity of such computing devices that rely on Apple’s M-series Ultra chips has undoubtedly encouraged Apple’s pursuit of an enterprise server using the same chips.\n\n[The Information reported](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-stumbled-ai-hardware-success-mac) that AI companies such as OpenAI have bought “tens of thousands” of Mac minis and Mac Studios to train AI agents through trial-and-error reinforcement learning, while Anthropic has also rented Mac minis from Amazon Web Services.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/apple-reportedly-building-server-packed-with-m-series-ultra-chips-for-ai", "canonical_source": "https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/apple-reportedly-building-server-packed-with-m-series-ultra-chips-for-ai/", "published_at": "2026-09-16 22:02:46+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-17 08:55:19.032436+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-infrastructure", "ai-chips", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Apple", "M-series Ultra", "M8 Ultra", "The Information", "John Ternus", "OpenAI", "Anthropic", "Amazon Web Services"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/apple-reportedly-building-server-packed-with-m-series-ultra-chips-for-ai", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/apple-reportedly-building-server-packed-with-m-series-ultra-chips-for-ai.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/apple-reportedly-building-server-packed-with-m-series-ultra-chips-for-ai.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/apple-reportedly-building-server-packed-with-m-series-ultra-chips-for-ai.jsonld"}}