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IBM and OpenPower Could Mean a Fight With Intel For Chinese Server Market

Posted by timothy on from the round-the-mulberry-bust dept.

itwbennett writes With AMD's fade out from the server market and the rapid decline of RISC systems, Intel has stood atop the server market all by itself. But now IBM, through its OpenPOWER Foundation, could give Intel and its server OEMs a real fight in China, which is a massive server market. As the investor group Motley Fool notes, OpenPOWER is a threat to Intel in the Chinese server market because the government has been actively pushing homegrown solutions over foreign technology, and many of the Foundation members, like Tyan, are from China.

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  1. Mill Architecture by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The Mill architecture is around the corner now, and promises immense potential. It elegantly addresses many deficiencies of conventional architectures, and enables substantially increased efficiency while also simplifying system software and compilers. It is a fascinating and compelling design, which re-abstracts the hardware and software in a fundamentally superior way.

    While the Alpha is a nice RISC design, at heart it is more similar to an x86 than not. The paradigm introduced by the Mill architecture is a world apart.

  2. AMD Fade Out? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Uh what?

    Last I heard AMD was going balls to the wall with an ARM server chip and 'Zen' server cores in Q1 2016.
    Come to think of it, outside of GPUs, server chips are the only thing I've heard of that AMD's working on down the road.