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by victor106 2 hours ago
Keep hearing that IBM makes these incredible chips but don’t see anyone using IBM chips. What do they do with them?
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Approximately everyone (at least in the F500) outside of Big Tech uses them. For example, Costco's entire inventory management system runs on IBM i (so, POWER). You can see the classic terminal look around the store. Banks run a TON of z and i. You'll never see them because they're essentially always in data centers, but I guarantee you interact with them even if it's very non-obvious because there's 50 microservices between the UI and the actual system of record.
Their line of POWER chips are used in their mainframes
The product here is the research and licensing the tech.
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