Apple is shopping for chip companies because its own AI servers can’t keep up
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If Apple is hunting AI chip acquisitions after a decade of vertical integration, the AI server race has outpaced even top-tier in-house design cycles. Anyone not at Apple’s scale should assume they’ll be price-takers on AI silicon — and design for portability across multiple vendors.
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