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Nitpick: Almost 20 years ago IBM had the eclipz project to share technology between its POWER (System i and System P) and Mainframe (System Z) servers. I'm not
by sillywalk 1y ago
Nitpick:
Almost 20 years ago IBM had the eclipz project to share technology between its POWER (System i and System P) and Mainframe (System Z) servers. I'm not sure if counts as "based on", but
"the z10 processor was co-developed with and shares many design traits with the POWER6 processor, such as fabrication technology, logic design, execution unit, floating-point units, bus technology (GX bus) and pipeline design style."[0]
The chips were otherwise quite different, and obviously don't share the same ISA. I also don't know if IBM has kept this kind of sharing between POWER & Z.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_z10 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_z10
- rbanffy 1y agoThey must share some similarities - it's IBM and both POWER and Z have access to the same patents and R&D. Apart from that, they are very different chips, for very different markets. Also, I'm sure there are many little POWER-like cores inside a z17 doing things like pushing data around. A major disappointment is that the hardware management elements are x86 machines, probably the only x86 machines IBM still sells.