Keep hearing that IBM makes these incredible chips but don’t see anyone using IBM chips. What do they do with them?

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.

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reppap 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Ericsson used a lot of power chips in their telecom hardware 10 years ago at least, haven't worked with their stuff since then so I haven't kept up.

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ternaryoperator 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Their line of POWER chips are used in their mainframes

	▲	lizknope 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		No, their mainframes use the zArch which goes back to the System/360 from 1964. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z/Architecture IBM sells huge servers with POWER architecture CPUs but they are not what people are referring to when they talk about IBM mainframes.

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kcb 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The product here is the research and licensing the tech.

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jjk7 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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