RISC-V is changing a lot of things. PowerPC doesn't have much value any longer. IBM will be fine without it. I wouldn't capitalize ARM right now.
Disclaimer: Since I am part running a venture fund these days, SEC won't let me say what I'm actually invested in to you lowly non-accredited investors, but it might be a company on one side or the other of this argument. Where the first amendment fits in this I am still unclear. On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 12:53 PM Simon Hobson <li...@thehobsons.co.uk> wrote: > Didier Kryn <k...@in2p3.fr> wrote: > > > Therefore it means IBM doesn't care anymore in PowerPc arch ... That's > what I fear, actually. > > I don't think it means that. It's clear that PowerPC is stuck as a niche > architecture. The only way out of that is to get lots of people using it - > and making it freely available is one way towards that. You only need to > look at a few examples to see that : > > USB vs FireWire. Firewire was very significantly better in many respects > than USB, but it was expensive to implement because Apple were greedy over > royalties. The inferior USB was really cheap to implement and took over. > > ARM. They licensed it widely for modest amounts, and it's been widely > implemented instead of other architectures. > > For IBM, it could be a shrewd move to get more people using the platform, > and thus boost it's popularity, and thus boost both the availability of > hardware and choice of software to run on it. The Intel approach is to try > and have all of the cake; this could be a move to make the cake much > bigger, and thus make a slice of it bigger. > IFF it works, they'll significantly expand the PowerPC market - and while > they'll have a smaller share of it, they'll actually make more money. > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > -- Bruce Perens - Partner, OSS.Capital.
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