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IBM designs their own POWER processors, they also bought RedHat and can manufacture entire systems. I know this is not a popular view, but IBM is the only vend
by marcodiego 5y ago
IBM designs their own POWER processors, they also bought RedHat and can manufacture entire systems.
I know this is not a popular view, but IBM is the only vendor other than Apple that can build an entire machine from the processor to the operating system. It could be interesting if their systems were cheaper so that x86 had some competition.
- jjtheblunt 5y agoi actually do not know why that would be an unpopular opinion
- marcodiego 5y agoNeither do I. But this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26532518 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26532518 got me -4 karma.
- _-david-_ 5y agoHow are Apple and IBM the only companies that can build their own machines? Amazon has their own (arm) CPUs and use Linux. They don't sell their servers but you can use them on AWS.