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"...the utter dependence that customers...have on these boxes..." is less technical than contractual.
by FrankWilhoit 1y ago
"...the utter dependence that customers...have on these boxes..." is less technical than contractual.
- Fade_Dance 1y agoWhat they were providing sounded fairly niche in the Chipsandcheese interview. Terabytes of DRAM on an entirely different protocol than DDR (less "stressed" with robust interconnects and a higher signal integrity - which I would assume necessarily comes with a higher cost for boards and silicon real estate), strongly parallel and specifically designed to improve signal quality/reroute around bad connections, and generally hyper focus on uptime for mission critical massive in memory databases. I've never understood why these processors really exist before, but I think that makes sense. The traditional Z mainframes (focused on uptime to the point where everything is hot swappable while running and redundant) I did understand as probably having some valid use deep inside the financial system and defense, but the enterprise facing solutions like power I never really got. Anyway if anyone has more to add I'd like to hear it. Is my first paragraph mostly it?