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What would be the point for Google to build their own CPU? How would it be different from what IBM has to offer?

• barkingcat 12y ago
  The parent poster is referring to IBM leaving the cpu fab business, so of course a Google produced CPU (most likely farmed out to a fab) is better than a ghost cpu produced by a shut down factory by non-existent fab technicians/engineers.
  • wmf 12y ago
    Realistically, you don't shut down a multi-billion-dollar state-of-the-art fab. It may be sold to another company but it will continue to operate.
  • protomyth 12y ago
    Is it confirmed IBM will stop chip fab?
    • wmf 12y ago
      No.
  • zurn 12y ago
    AMD has also been fabless for a while. Somehow the chips keep showing up...