This kind of thing made sense when IBM sold literal big metal on-prem hardware. It makes no sense in a virtualized cloud environment of cattle hosts. Who wants

This kind of thing made sense when IBM sold literal big metal on-prem hardware. It makes no sense in a virtualized cloud environment of cattle hosts. Who wants to deal with the overhead of managing licenses and not using the full yield capabilities of latest gen hardware. The problem that Intel has is that when they fall behind in engineering and revenue from superior products, they turn to business hacks to make up for it. That used to work in the past when they dominated with less interchangeability, but today with AMD being strong and ARM growing, may only trade short term revenue for long term decline.