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And then China picks up the design and so.. profit?
by cjhanks 7y ago
And then China picks up the design and so.. profit?
- wmf 7y agoIBM already sold Power8 to Suzhou PowerCore which then went out of business (if it was ever a real business). When it comes to processors China seems to be throwing everything at the wall (MIPS, Power, ARM, etc.) and almost nothing is sticking.
- wyxuan 7y agoTheir collab with AMD is working out okay though right? And still gets a chunk of money from licensing server chip designs that they (China) then use for super computers
- jabl 7y agoDon't know about AMD collaboration, but their home-grown supercomputers use some home-grown ISA, reportedly roughly based on an extended variant of MIPS. As an aside, it was long before Trumps trade war with China that USA refused to sell chips for Chinese supercomputers, prompting them to seriously start developing their own. Will be interesting whether we'll see Chinese POWER designs, or whether they continue with MIPS and RISC-V.
- addicted 7y agoBut that’s how these things go. Nothing works, until something does. And the something has little to do with the actual merits of the thing, but rather, the timing and confluence of events sureounding it. As an example, the fact that a major Chinese company was fairly capriciously prevented from working may be a triggering event that would concentrate all Chinese companies’ minds towards adopting a new ISA and chip technology that’s open.
- Koshkin 7y agoAccording to ZDNet, yes: https://www.zdnet.com/article/ibms-power-ful-open-source-gift-big-winner-is-china-losers-include-you-know-who/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/ibms-power-ful-open-source-gif...
- sliken 7y agoThis article largely seems to miss the difference between an ISA (the instruction set) and a CPU.