[raverbashing]

I wonder what's the competitive advantage of POWER in terms of cost/performance compared with x86

(And sure they have their mainframes, but POWER seems to be the 'middle of the road' solution from them - at least in cost)

Or it's mostly about "this IBM solution only runs under Linux or AIX in POWER6)

[brucethemoose2]

Their biggest chips are, SMT, memory and interconnect heavy. Seems like they would be quite competitive in memory-bound database loads.

But the big thing with POWER is that its open source. Generally, whatever virtues apply to RISC-V apply to POWER as well.