In all of those cool computer control rooms you see in the movies, there is always some simple screen that the technician looks at when there is a problem. Admittedly this computer techie is not normally the hero of the movie, nor are they usually the most dashing of characters but nevertheless, they have a […]
Power/Nvidia combo bags $325m supercomputer order
IBM’s OpenPower alliance with Nvidia has borne its first fruit in the form of a $325 million contract from the U.S. government’s Department of Energy to build two of the world’s fastest supercomputers. A huge Power9 processor-based machine codenamed Summit will be installed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee by 2017. It will […]
GlobalFoundries gets $1.5 billion to make Power chips
IBM is to sell its processor manufacturing arm to GlobalFoundries. Big Blue announced today that it will pay GlobalFoundries $1.5 billion to take its chip factories in New York and Vermont off its hands. GlobalFoundries will be IBM’s exclusive provider for 22 nanometer, 14nm and 10nm processor chipsets for the next 10 years. Plus GlobalFoundries […]
Rumours abound about IBM’s processor sell-off
There has been continued speculation about the future of IBM’s chip-making division in the American press. Last week, U.S. news agency Bloomberg claimed that Big Blue couldn’t pay to be rid of the unit that produces Power processors. Yesterday, a report in the Poughkeepsie Journal cast doubt about the future of its East Fishkill processor […]
IBM’s processor sell-off may have stalled
IBM may not be selling its processor businesses to GlobalFoundries after all, according to a Bloomberg report. On Friday, the American news agency posted a story that said IBM had walked away from the negotiating table because GlobalFoundries’ offer for its chip operation was too small. Neither party had been willing to comment either way. […]
IBM’s Power processor sell-off “imminent”
IBM is rumoured to be on the brink of selling its Power processor manufacturing business. According to reports in American media outlets, Big Blue is going to offload its entire chip-making arm to California-headquartered GlobalFoundries. GlobalFoundries was spun out of AMD in 2009 and is owned by the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. The company may […]