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Cloud Compute.

Seems like a huge lost opportunity for by Intel not targeting the "consumer" cloud compute market with NUC's, because they wanted to protect their high margin server chip business.

There's huge classes of workloads that a NUC would do just fine on for the cloud, and cloud operators would love the lower power & physical size of these NUC compute devices.

AMD has embraced it, and you'll see 7000 chips at various cloud compute companies like OVH & Hetzner.



For that kind of use case, you'd want a blade server or similar, not a NUC. In particular, you'd want something that works with a rack.


Something like this?

https://hackaday.com/2012/12/09/160-mac-minis-one-rack/

160 Mac Mini’s in a rack.

That’s ~4-nodes / 1U. And you don’t have the added expense of the blade enclosure.


It's a thing because Apple doesn't sell rack mount Mac. Blade servers must be better for cost, cooling and high reliability.


Apple does in fact sell a rack mount Mac.

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/mac-pro/rack




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