OpenPower Foundation members showed off some potentially game-changing new hardware at their first full conference in San Jose, California, last week. The Open Power consortium was formed by IBM in August, 2013, in an attempt to create a renewed ecosystem around its Power processor technology. From four original partners, the group has grown to 110 […]
Opinion: IBM needs more focus on Power
Call me biased, but isn’t one of the primary messages from IBM’s latest disappointing quarterly figures simply that it needs to sell more Power Systems? Big Blue certainly made no bones about fingering its Systems and Technology server and storage division for some of its failings in its earnings announcement on Monday. Revenues from Power […]
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 […]
Tyan’s Palmetto is first non-IBM Power system
The first non-IBM Power processor-based servers will hit the streets later this month, courtesy of Taiwanese manufacturer Tyan. The announcement came yesterday despite rumours that such hardware, promised as a result of collaboration within IBM’s OpenPOWER Foundation industry consortium, would not appear until well into 2015. There were doubts in some quarters that it would […]