IBM has been building chips since day one. I'd expect IBM to divest their mainframe business eventually. The distinction you are missing is that usually "finance-driven" companies don't usually decide to pour billions of dollars into bringing in an already outsourced component in house that they hardly have experience in.
Furthermore, I don't see IBM using the Z to "innovate" - They aren't pushing the mainframes to anyone other than people who are already buying mainframes.
>Z is a more interesting architecture by far than the turd Apple is shipping.
The Z, an architecture for people who are pretty much already buying mainframes, is more interesting than a desktop class chip with what will probably be a completely unmatched in performance/watt? I don't see how the Z is more interesting than a chip that is finally attempting to challenge the 30 year x86 dominance in desktop computing.
IBM has been building chips since day one. I'd expect IBM to divest their mainframe business eventually. The distinction you are missing is that usually "finance-driven" companies don't usually decide to pour billions of dollars into bringing in an already outsourced component in house that they hardly have experience in.
Furthermore, I don't see IBM using the Z to "innovate" - They aren't pushing the mainframes to anyone other than people who are already buying mainframes.
>Z is a more interesting architecture by far than the turd Apple is shipping.
The Z, an architecture for people who are pretty much already buying mainframes, is more interesting than a desktop class chip with what will probably be a completely unmatched in performance/watt? I don't see how the Z is more interesting than a chip that is finally attempting to challenge the 30 year x86 dominance in desktop computing.