OpenAI buys tens of thousands of Mac minis as RTX Spark PCs sell out
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OpenAI has purchased tens of thousands of Apple Mac mini and Mac Studio devices over the past few months for AI workloads. The first batch of NVIDIA RTX Spark-based PCs from Asus, MSI, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Microsoft has sold out ahead of their fall debut.
Key Facts
- OpenAI has bought tens of thousands of Apple Mac mini and Mac Studio devices over the past few months.
- Anthropic is renting Apple Mac devices through Amazon AWS.
- The first batch of NVIDIA RTX Spark superchips is sold out, with Asus, MSI, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Microsoft taking N1x systems.
- NVIDIA's RTX Spark N1x platform uses TSMC's 3nm node and includes a 20-core Grace CPU and a Blackwell RTX 5070 GPU with 6,144 CUDA cores.
- Apple unveiled the M6 Mac mini and M5 Ultra Mac Studio refresh last week.
Apple Hardware Demand
OpenAI has purchased tens of thousands of Apple Mac mini and Mac Studio devices over the past few months for reinforcement learning and agentic workloads. Anthropic is renting Apple Mac devices through Amazon AWS. Apple's Mac mini and Mac Studio devices saw strong sales earlier this year due to their unified memory architecture and low-latency Thunderbolt 5 feature. Apple unveiled the new M6 Mac mini and M5 Ultra Mac Studio refresh last week.
RTX Spark Shortage
The first batch of NVIDIA RTX Spark superchips is sold out, according to Taiwan's Economic Daily. Asus, MSI, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Microsoft have all taken N1x systems. The RTX Spark N1x platform uses TSMC's 3nm node technology. It features a 20-core Grace CPU and a Blackwell RTX 5070 GPU with 6,144 CUDA cores delivering up to 1 PFLOP FP4 AI performance. The platform supports up to 128GB of LPDDR5X unified memory and around 600 GB/s NVLink-C2C bandwidth.
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