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I keep hearing this on HN and I do not buy it. The initial cost is much much greater than the competition and even at lower power draw, I don't see it being competitive.

And I don't think Apple would even want to be competitive in this segment.

Apple will not enter the server chip market, hell Apple is not even selling any B2B products, and Jobs was always very vocal about how he doesn't like B2B.

I know that AWS already have their own ARM chips: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/. I don't know about chips enough to understand how large is the gap between AWS and Apple when it comes to designing chips though.

I run arm servers in production. M1 performance core performance is about 3x graviton 2 and 2.5x ampere ultra in our stack. The efficiency core is about 0.6 graviton and a bit less than half ampere.

Would love to have reasonably costed m1 instances but the value play for us is ampere.

Thanks for sharing that.