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Indeed. IBM could have done a lot more for Power than they are, but they don't understand how. They only understand how to make overpriced hardware for the ente
by DCKing 6y ago
Indeed. IBM could have done a lot more for Power than they are, but they don't understand how. They only understand how to make overpriced hardware for the enterprise. They don't understand how to build a grassroots developer community or the consumer friendly hardware needed for that. This has been a problem for nearly twenty years, as that problem is also the reason Apple switched away from Power.
Power and RISC V should look a lot more attractive because of the Nvidia/ARM deal, and Power has a lot of advantages over RISC V, with proven high performance designs and apparently really good Linux ecosystem support for ppc64le. But with IBM as the captain of Power, I highly doubt Power can capitalize on that at all.
- na85 6y ago>Indeed. IBM could have done a lot more for Power than they are, but they don't understand how. They only understand how to make overpriced hardware for the enterprise. They don't understand how to build a grassroots developer community or the consumer friendly hardware needed for that. I'm inclined to agree and that's really disappointing.
- gnufx 6y agoThere's a contrast between working with RISC-V and POWER covered at https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Libre-RISC-V-Eyeing-POWER https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Libre-RI... which may be relevant, though I do rather agree about IBM, even while developing on a POWER9 system.