Is powerpc a failure

Few years back…

Wait!!!! I do know very little about happenings in ISA and rivals during 1980–2009. But after that Intel is very good at speeding up its devices by leveraging its manufacturing technology comparing side by side PowerPc processors were always about equal to x86 processors. More expensive than ARM and MISP Processors..which one would you choose.

Present situation…

IBM has released the Power Architecture instruction set to the Linux Foundation, making it freely available to anyone who wants it. It’s a no-cost, royalty-free license to the ISA much like the one for RISC-V(which was also maintained by Linux Foundation) and other open-source processors. Starting now, you can design your own PowerPC processor without first paying a hefty license fee..

Hey, good news and bad news welcomed us.

GOOD NEWS 

 free processor! What’s not to like about that? You get an official IBM-designed CPU with a huge upside growth path. Thirteen of the 500 Fastest supercomputers in the world are build with IBM’s power architecture(actually it used to be top 200 out of 500,but the mark of power architecture is gradually declining) and both of the top two are based on IBM’s Power architecture. It doesn’t get any more blue-chip than that.

BAD NEWS

On the other hand, this seems like a sad and humiliating end to a once-proud processor family. It’s as if the Ambani (iam indian) went begging on the street. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. IBM’s Power architecture, and its mass-market PowerPC spinoff, were supposed to be the Intel-killers of the 1990s. IBM, Apple, and Motorola (then Freescale, then NXP) had jointly designed and adopted PowerPC as the modern RISC alternative to the creaking old x86 that threatened to dominate the computing world. (How did that ever turn out…?).

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