https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/ibm-announces-strategic-collaboration-arm-040100144.html
This is far more strategic than first appears as it gives Enterprise customers options while feeding IBM’s strategy of buying SW innovations.
@1a5 kind of. IDC reports x86 server sales increased 32% in revenue in Q325. It has been NVIDAI GPU reveue in x86 servers that has been very hot and now leading to very long lead times. Yes ARM And RISC-V are also growing but still a small part of the pie. Competition is good for everyone.
x86 is on the decline and ARM is on the rise, both in consumer space and cloud infrastructure at hyperscalers, due to its efficiency, scalability, performance per watt, and the ability of customers to license and customize designs for their unique requirements. It won't save IBM, but partnering with ARM is a necessary reality in today's IT world, and once again, IBM is years late to the party.
IBM cabal of thieves (executives) are running like headless chicken. They are a bunch a useless incompetent id--ts led by the Indian id--t at the top.
ARM is commodity silicon designs owned 90% by Japanese software company SoftBank. Like buying salt or flour at the supermarket. This is the IBM "strategy" of "throwing things at the wall to see what sticks (and stinks)."
Why this doesn’t make a lot of sense to do
Yea Surprised ARM agreed to join this…. What upside for them?
Companies look to ARM for their low power cloud compute workloads where X86 is too expensive and/or too power intensive. IBM's brilliant idea is to convince them to run these workloads on a mainframe ARM emulator? This doesn't sound strategic, it sounds like IBM panicking because they're seeing more and more erosion of mainframe utilization at their key clients.