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Developing a good x86 CPU is far beyond IBM's abilities. The rights aren't enough.
by wmf 7mo ago
Developing a good x86 CPU is far beyond IBM's abilities. The rights aren't enough.
- kev009 7mo agoPrice competitive to AMD and intel? Sure. Abilities? There is no magic, the Tellium and Power11 are each as complicated as something like Epyc and the former has both a longer and taller compatibility totem pole than x86. Anyway this post was never about building ARM or x86 CPUs, the point is they could have done a zArch fast path for x86 for "free", so there is some other strategy at play to consider doing it with ARM.