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Re:IBM releases RTL source code for A2I Blue Gene/Q processo... by olympusultra on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @05:49AM (#23688380)
Good news! But will it be sufficient to reverse declining popularity of the POWER architecture?
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Re:IBM releases RTL source code for A2I Blue Gene/Q processo... by rbanffy on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @08:35AM (#23689383)
IBM targeted POWER towards the high-end server market. While this space suffers erosion from x86's coming from its low-end, IBM is not known to play in the commodity price-pressured segments unless it can't avoid it. I'm very sure that if IBM wanted to compete in the HEDT segment against Intel, it'd be able to offer a competitive product (as the Raptor workstation proves).
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