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Raptor has been making POWER-based machines for quite a few years now. Their Talos line was one of the first systems to have PCI Express 4.0 back in the day: ht
by MenhirMike 3y ago
Raptor has been making POWER-based machines for quite a few years now. Their Talos line was one of the first systems to have PCI Express 4.0 back in the day: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Talos-2-Initial-Hands-On https://www.phoronix.com/news/Talos-2-Initial-Hands-On
(EDIT: OP was talking about the chip manufacturer, not the system maker. And OP is asking a very good question.)
- wmf 3y agoThe chip isn't from Raptor; it's from Solid Silicon. Why does Solid Silicon exist?
- MenhirMike 3y agoAh, now THAT is a good and interesting question. I know that there's been a lot of funding for Texas chip fabs, but yeah, no idea who those guys are. (Edit: According to their website, they're fabless. So that's even weirder. And I'm surprised that one can trademark the paragraph symbol(§) like they claim to have done.)
- jabl 3y agoWell, the fabless part is at least easy to understand. Building a new high end fab costs billions and requires deep expertise that takes years, if not decades, to build. Practically every chip company these days is fabless. Intel is the exception, not the rule. That being said, designing a new high end cpu is very expensive and complex. That a hitherto unknown company embarks on such a project is, indeed, very suspicious.
- formerly_proven 3y ago> Practically every chip company these days is fabless. Intel is the exception, not the rule. A lot of analog and mixed-signal companies aren't: TI, NXP, ADI (with LT, ON Semi, Maxim, ...), Avago/Broadcom, AMS, Bosch, Infineon, Elmos etc.; also "the Japanese" (Sony, Fujitsu, Oki, Canon, Rohm and probably more)