On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 06:44:59 PM Andrew McGlashan wrote:
IBM don't have any hardware platform now, everything has been sold off.
Whilst they have sold off their x86 entirely to Lenovo they still have Power. Yes, they are selling the fabs off, but AMD did that before them (and thus GlobalFoundry was born) and I suspect IBM have sold the fabs so they can get access to better fabs and not have to fund the development (directly) themselves. They've committed to buying Power chips from GlobalFoundry for 10 years so it has some life left in it. Of course if Power8 doesn't work out for them then it will be easier for them to exit the hardware market, and to be honest I'd not be surprised if they chose to do that at the end of the deal. But I'd not be surprised if they carried on using them to make chips and platforms too. cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC