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  • #11
    Originally posted by iniudan View Post
    Why would IBM care about that ? They are doing everything they can to themselves stay out of the consumer market these day, if their solution end up in consumer market it only because some enterprise consulted them for a consumer product.
    Cause PowerPC is becoming irrelevant as time goes by? It's been pushed out the console market by x86. ARM has the mobile market cornered. What does PowerPC have a market in, IBM's servers?

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    • #12
      Originally posted by garegin View Post
      expect that Apple knows squat about making CPUs. The R&D for new CPU lines is herculean. You can't just put on a turtleneck and willy nily beat Intel at their game. If they do, they eventually fall behind, badly.
      They actually bought P.A. Semi, which made an original and recent PowerPC Architechture chip called PWRficient, and basically shut it down. It's the basis of the rather brutally expensive Amiga X1000, which is made in rather limited quantities still.

      The PWRficient seemed a curious cpu, since it's apparently bi-endian, and runs at reasonably high clocks and has altivec. I really wish Apple hadn't bought P.A. Semi, such a loss, they could've done some wonderful and interesting cpu designs, now they're locked in Apple's secret culture.

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      • #13
        Originally posted by Ibidem View Post
        Apple bought out Intrinsity and have been designing their own ARM SoCs for mobile devices for quite a while.
        He's talking about the fab level work.
        I don't think apple does much more than throw the fabs a cad file for their chips (simplification I'm sure, but the actual manufacturing is left to the fabs, and that is an area Intel is the acknowledged leader).

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        • #14
          Originally posted by Dukenukemx View Post
          Cause PowerPC is becoming irrelevant as time goes by? It's been pushed out the console market by x86. ARM has the mobile market cornered. What does PowerPC have a market in, IBM's servers?
          Like I said IBM doesn't care, consumer market is no longer in their sight, they got rid of it when they sold their PC division to Lenovo. They went back to been almost purely high margin business solution and consultant, they also want to get rid of their x86 server division, but deal with Lenovo didn't work, Dell currently busy with trying to by itself back and HP has no reason to buy the division, even if they had money, has they are already at the head of the server market, the only one I can see buying System X is Cisco, has to bolster their UCS division and Microsoft, if for some odd reason they decide, they also want to enter server hardware market, which I highly doubt since their idea of server market seem to be the cloud with Azure.

          They only other I can see buying that division, and I think that one is mostly utopic, would be if some open compute project partner banding together to buy it. Has I highly doubt Facebook want to get in server market, even if the main contributor and user of Open Compute design and have enough asset to simply buy it themselves, but I could see them putting down some money for reduced server manufacturing cost, from been one of the main business partner, instead of going through 3rd party ODM.

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          • #15
            Originally posted by Dukenukemx View Post
            Cause PowerPC is becoming irrelevant as time goes by? It's been pushed out the console market by x86. ARM has the mobile market cornered. What does PowerPC have a market in, IBM's servers?
            Seems that's the only place right now for PPC...in servers such as IBM's pSeries server line. These patches IBM's pushing for 3.11 kernel is mainly to bolster support for Linux on their PPC based server lines.

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            • #16
              I really do miss PowerPC, it really was far faster then x86 for a number of tasks back when they where still a consumer product.

              Originally posted by liam View Post
              They could buy the expertise they need.
              They've got so much liquidity that there's not much they couldn't do, but they would need to show that the VAST expense to be worth it.
              They could try buying IBMs Hudson Valley fab. That's a state of the art facility and I'd heard that IBM was considering unloading it.
              Next they'd need to buy lcd panel maker and actual manufacturing facilities to assemble the components to fully verticalize (yeah, I made that a verb).
              This would cost tons, but they could do it.
              In order to make that happen the US would have to put back in place import tariffs, remove the tax loopholes and raise the tax rates back above 50% like they where in the era of the US economic boom time since then it would force them to reinvest their profits into the company(I.E. put it into R&D, hire more people, upgrade a factory, etc.) instead of allowing them to just amass huge piles of money to only use as bonuses for executives, play in the Wall Street casino or use to patent troll potential competition instead of actually competing on the quality of their products and the skill of their marketing team to sell it.

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