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| | (Post a comment) » IBM selling PC business to push PowerPC?Interesting speculation on the Register.
There is no rule that says that the next generation of Linux desktops need to be powered by an Intel chip, and given the performance of the Power architecture, accelerating gently ahead of Intel's single core chip capability, it is a natural contender for the de facto chip to power Linux, not just on servers, where it plays right now, nor just on Supercomputers, but down also on Workstations, PCs, and under the power of CE Linux, on consumer electronics devices, cheap internet access devices and even mobile phones.
In fact Intel is the last chip base that a fresh market, like China, would want to embrace, given that any devices made using Intel chips can also be used to run copies of Windows, legal or otherwise, and China wants to steer a wide course around Windows, and instead develop its own architectures.
It is then perhaps no coincidence that IBM announced the creation this week of Power.Org from an event in China, and that it is a Chinese company Lenovo that is leading the charge to buy IBM's PC operations for some $2bn or so. Perhaps the quid pro quo is that IBM's Power chipset becomes the future Chinese server standard. |  Previous news article | Back to main news | Next news article  |
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dominoedge at 09:16pm 12/8/2004
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I think that's the best explanation I've heard so far ...
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Anonymous at 08:31pm 12/8/2004
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"IBM is selling its unprofitable and declining PC
division to quit losing money"
Exactly
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squeegie (View my Profile) at 08:20pm 12/8/2004
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Hey Firing Squad, can you please post more IBM Headlines? I think
this is only the 15th in 5 minutes
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Anonymous at 04:53pm 12/8/2004
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LOL. more like "Holy crap, we just cant compete in this
industry anymore without being unprofitable, who do we want to screw
over... that Chinese company?.... yeah, they're dumb enough to buy
the unit"
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Anonymous at 12:34pm 12/8/2004
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I think, "IBM is selling its unprofitable and declining PC
division to quit losing money," is probably more like it. This
article sounds like the typical Linux groupie's argument that
everything is done so that it can advance Linux.
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Anonymous at 05:23am 12/8/2004
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If I had a dime every time that I heard x86 architecture will soon
be replaced, I'd probably be able to afford a Power-based pc by now
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Anonymous at 04:45am 12/8/2004
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weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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