Re:Why IBM Is Suing GlobalFoundries over Chip Roadmap Failures
by dralley on Monday June 14, 2021 @08:24AM
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POWER is still part of IBM. They sold off their fabs and some of the related IP, not their chip design or process R&D teams.
A partnership with IBM was a major headline of the Intel foundry partnership program a few weeks ago.
Re:Why IBM Is Suing GlobalFoundries over Chip Roadmap Failures
by baybal2 on Monday June 14, 2021 @08:08AM
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I call it "we can't make money on chips, so will sue our foundry for that," and in part to save their filet parts from shareholders (who themselves were partially responsible for scrouging on capex.)
Re:Why IBM Is Suing GlobalFoundries over Chip Roadmap Failures
by thrower123 on Monday June 14, 2021 @08:18AM
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It's sort of wild that they just split out all their services and consulting as well, so I'm not sure what IBM does now, aside from Watson, an also-ran cloud hosting business, and the old big-iron.
Re:Why IBM Is Suing GlobalFoundries over Chip Roadmap Failures
by crdotson on Monday June 14, 2021 @09:23AM
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IBM just split out “we will run your servers for you,” not consulting or other services. You’re forgetting about a large security services business unit, a large research org, and several other parts.
Re:Why IBM Is Suing GlobalFoundries over Chip Roadmap Failures
by belter on Monday June 14, 2021 @11:16AM
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They are still bigger than AWS although it might not last long.
"AWS on track to be bigger than IBM by Christmas" https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/30/amazon_q1_2021/
Wow. Time for popcorn. It's itanic all over. On the other hand it is sad to see Power go.