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OpenPOWER will never gain traction outside IBM. They are kept on life support by Google et al in order to have pricing leverage over Intel. That's it.
by patrickg_zill 8y ago
OpenPOWER will never gain traction outside IBM. They are kept on life support by Google et al in order to have pricing leverage over Intel. That's it.
- kev009 8y agoAnd ARM in the datacenter has a really stellar trackrecord huh? Everything changed post meltdown. Gmail is running on OpenPOWER.
- patrickg_zill 8y agoThey did it to show that they COULD switch away from x64 if needed to. Have they continued buying OpenPOWER systems at the same rate as they buy x64 hardware?
- kev009 8y agoI don't have any FP&A details, only technical public and private. They are vocal about using it for GPUs. It's a much cheaper and more balanced way to glue Nvidia GPUs versus Nvidia DGX on x86 which also has severe bottle necks at the host bridge point. The private is gmail, which happened much later than the negotiating tactic point. It fits into a number of other goals including a completely open firmware stack. You only have to have cursory headline knowledge of the news for the past 2 years to understand why this is no longer about initial procurement cost.