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Re:Jim Whitehurst to step down as IBM President by darksaints on Friday July 02, 2021 @11:46AM (#27713013)
The chip business has so much potential, and they're wasting it all because they're so stuck in their enterprise marketing and sales model. There is so much demand out there for non-X86 workstations with high performance and large core counts, and they won't even touch it. There is so much demand out there for highly scalable and energy efficient cloud professors (to the point that they're developing them independently), and they won't even touch it. Just sell the damn processors to the people who want them already!
Re:Jim Whitehurst to step down as IBM President by xadhominemx on Friday July 02, 2021 @12:05PM (#27713271)
There are many very well funded companies working on merchant non-x86 processors. There’s no reason to think IBM would be any better at it or that customers would prefer to buy from IBM.
Re:Jim Whitehurst to step down as IBM President by kjs3 on Friday July 02, 2021 @01:43PM (#27714490)
There’s no reason to think IBM would be any better at it

I dunno...they've been building processors since the 1950s.