According to a new supply chain report this morning, Apple has been stepping up its purchases of datacenter server components since second-quarter 2020 with related shipments in full-year 2020 expected to double on year and to continue to grow in 2021, according to sources from Taiwan's server upstream supply chain.

Digitimes further reported that "Apple, keen on boosting its services sales, is fast expanding its own data centers. The US vendor is expected to see a sharp rise in purchases of server components in 2020 and 2021."