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How big is IBMs chip manufacturing? Power seems to be more and more out of fashion and other chips seems to preform way better. They cant be making much of tho
by blodkorv 5y ago
How big is IBMs chip manufacturing?
Power seems to be more and more out of fashion and other chips seems to preform way better. They cant be making much of those?
- agumonkey 5y agoMaybe with the relocalization of fabs they will have an opportunity to grow that side again.
- ilogik 5y agoif only there were a handy article on anandtech, linked to on HN that could answer this question
- jhickok 5y agoIBM still makes a lot of money on Power, but at the moment it is a managed decline. Ever refresh cycle they get a nice big revenue bump, and they have a pretty large Fortune 500/US Defense base that won't be leaving Power any time soon. Soon IBM will be the biggest consumer of Power as they continue to move customers to Power on IBM Cloud. https://www.ibm.com/cloud/power-virtual-server https://www.ibm.com/cloud/power-virtual-server
- 908B64B197 5y agoOther than legacy software, is there a reason to use Power at all?
- blodkorv 5y agoAs of now Intel/AMD will always be cheaper for the performance you get. So it guess legacy is the only logical reason. In some benchmarks power is faster but instead of spending the extra money on power you can just buy more intel/AMD cpus and not bother with making sure your software work on power.