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Cyph0ntoday at 12:23 AM3 repliesview on HN

IBM no longer has fabs (spun off as Globalfoundries and later sold), and no longer manufactures PCs (sold to Lenovo?), but it does make mainframes I guess?


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HerbManictoday at 4:02 AM

I am still amazed that IBM is pushing their POWER processors forwards for things like their System Z Mainframes. From what I have heard they are still really fast with I/O and general shifting of data but I'm not sure how much better than is than the alternatives.

Wouldn't be surprised if that finally gets sunset in the next few years.

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hakfootoday at 4:26 AM

I thought GlobalFoundries was AMD's fab division spun off.

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bram98today at 12:38 AM

They are mainly in services now, no?