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They technically have some useful IP. POWER in particular is like a more fleshed out RISC-V, and they could totally rework the memory/interconnet heavy mainfram
by brucethemoose2 4y ago
They technically have some useful IP. POWER in particular is like a more fleshed out RISC-V, and they could totally rework the memory/interconnet heavy mainframes to take advantage of the AI boom.
They just... don't.
- raverbashing 4y agoI wonder what's the competitive advantage of POWER in terms of cost/performance compared with x86 (And sure they have their mainframes, but POWER seems to be the 'middle of the road' solution from them - at least in cost) Or it's mostly about "this IBM solution only runs under Linux or AIX in POWER6)
- brucethemoose2 4y agoTheir biggest chips are, SMT, memory and interconnect heavy. Seems like they would be quite competitive in memory-bound database loads. But the big thing with POWER is that its open source. Generally, whatever virtues apply to RISC-V apply to POWER as well.