IBM Adds POWER9 AIO, Pushes for an Open Memory-Agnostic Interface

Re:IBM Adds POWER9 AIO, Pushes for an Open Memory-Agnostic I... by Accujack on Monday November 04, 2019 @02:16PM (#21445286)

IBM has been doing this for years.... at this point, research has to be a huge part of their expenses and royalties a huge part of their revenue. They invented things like copper interconnects that are standard now, along with a huge raft of other fundamental computing technologies still in use.

If IBM ever loses its technical edge and research staff, it's going to go under.

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Re:IBM Adds POWER9 AIO, Pushes for an Open Memory-Agnostic I... by cptnapalm on Monday November 04, 2019 @02:56PM (#21445760)

I had been reading about speeding up game programs by taking advantage of cache lines. Also, I've been reading "IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems" and came upon the initial development of cache. You'd think that the initial cache would fetch and store a word, but it didn't. It grabbed a block of words. In other words, a cache line. In 1968.

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