Related would be the discussion a few days ago on how Google (with potential for other hyperscale companies like Facebook) are experimenting with possible Power

Related would be the discussion a few days ago on how Google (with potential for other hyperscale companies like Facebook) are experimenting with possible Power9-based [1] systems. While I'll be interested to see how IBM continues to evolve POWER I think the potential uses for the interconnects (both CAPI and NVLink), particularly in ML, is in many ways more interesting then what CPUs themselves bring to the table. 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11468446 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11468446