Re:IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm
by silvestrov on Thursday April 02, 2026 @06:50AM
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Marketingwise I think it is difficult for IBM to sell x86 systems as it is too easy for customers to compare performance to a standard Wintel server.
Sun had the same problem after 2001 dotcom when standard PC servers became reliable enough to run web servers on.
It's easier to sell "our special sauce" when building using a custom ARM platform. Then you have no easy comparison with standard servers.
Re:IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm
by rzerowan on Thursday April 02, 2026 @07:15AM
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Yep i think thats why even POWER isnt sold standalone but as part of the Z/i series packages as a unit.
They will probably market the ARM inclusion similarly - as something that the package provides.
As far as POWER i think only Raptor[1] does direct marketingof the power(hehe) and capabilities
Re:IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm
by shrimppersimmon on Thursday April 02, 2026 @07:49AM
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POWER is sold standalone, it's not packaged with Z.
https://www.ibm.com/products/power
The i systems are just POWER machines with different firmware.
Re:IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm
by ghaff on Thursday April 02, 2026 @07:09AM
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IBM sold off XSeries, x86, to Lenovo years ago along with spinning off various other things that they considered commodity.
Re:IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm
by jhickok on Thursday April 02, 2026 @09:51AM
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IBM sells hyperconverged AIO OpenShift on Dell & Lenovo hardware now: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/fusion-hci-systems/2.12.x?topic=...
The architecture might be non-standard and not very widespread however for what it does and workloads that are suited to it. I dont think any ARM design comes close , maybe Fujitsu's A64FX.