3 Things IBM Wants You to Know About OpenPOWER

Grazed from MotleyFool. Author: Editorial Staff.

The evolution of the server market over the past few years has not been kind to International Business Machines (NYSE:IBM). While the company’s mainframe systems remain entrenched, its Power servers have been losing share to x86-based systems for quite some time. Cloud companies have been building massive, hyperscale data centers, often designing custom systems around chips from Intel. This is where much of the growth in the server industry is occurring, and IBM has completely missed the boat.

IBM recognized this problem a few years ago, and in 2013, the company founded the OpenPOWER foundation along with a handful of other member companies. The goal of the OpenPOWER foundation is to build an ecosystem around IBM’s POWER architecture, with technology being contributed from all of the foundation’s members…

IBM now licenses its chip IP to chip designers and third-party POWER systems, as well as IBM’s own POWER systems, so they can take advantage of the OpenPOWER ecosystem of hardware and software…

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