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Even in the larger commercial computer space, Japan always liked to sorta do their own thing. Aside from a couple other companies, they were always big Itanium
by ghaff 2y ago
Even in the larger commercial computer space, Japan always liked to sorta do their own thing. Aside from a couple other companies, they were always big Itanium backers for example.
I was an analyst during that period and Japan was always something of an outlier. (Europe was to some degree as well. But less so.)
- bonzini 2y agoRegarding Itanium, that could be just by chance because Fujitsu is the main (or almost only) seller of supercomputers in Japan partnered with HP. Also interesting however is how they switched to it from SPARC and actually kept using SPARC longer than the west.
- ghaff 2y agoNEC and Hitachi were involved as well. There was some sort of dynamic of collectively wanting something different from commodity x86.