[Info-vax] HP Securities Analyst Meeting 2012

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <k4re8r$4im$1 at solani.org>,
	Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> writes:
> Bill Gunshannon schrieb:
>> In article <k4phai$s7b$1 at dont-email.me>,
>> 	David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>> 
>>>People like winners.  As far as I know, from a performance standpoint, 
>>>Power is at the top of the list.
>> 
>> 
>> And all that without trying to make it a widespread architecture.  Go figure..
>> 
> 
> Well, not quite.
> They created quite a few derivatives
> (PowerPC, Bluegene, game console chips)
> which outsell the server chips by orders
> of magnitude. I guess this helps
> keeping the fabs profitable.
> 

I have never seen anything that said IBM chased tose markets but rather
that they came to IBM looking for Power.  And, IBM being the company
they are, obliged them.

HP on the other hand..........

bill

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