Re:Intel cuts Atom chips, basically giving up on the smartph...
by rbanffy on Saturday April 30, 2016 @03:49AM
(#11600829)
This is a path that must be followed with great attention. Giving up on low-end, entry-level parts often looks great in short term results but may doom the company in the end.
One of the reasons we deploy to x86 servers now rather then SPARC, POWER or MIPS is that we develop on x86. When Sun and IBM chose to exit the low-end space and pursue only large clients, they doomed their platforms to the legacy of those clients who already had their systems running on their platforms.
How many fresh applications are designed with SPARC or POWER in mind? How many are designed for zSeries mainframes?
One of the reasons we deploy to x86 servers now rather then SPARC, POWER or MIPS is that we develop on x86. When Sun and IBM chose to exit the low-end space and pursue only large clients, they doomed their platforms to the legacy of those clients who already had their systems running on their platforms.
How many fresh applications are designed with SPARC or POWER in mind? How many are designed for zSeries mainframes?