IBM spun out their foundries to Global Foundaries (formerly part of AMD) a decade ago, then refused to commit to Global Foundaries next major process upgrades.
Staying on the bleeding edge of silicon requires massive investment, which they weren't willing to make.
Didn’t POWER end up needing proprietary memory firmware?
https://www.talospace.com/2021/09/its-not-just-omi-thats-tro...
That couldn’t have helped. Otherwise I feel like RISC-V is better if you want to build something new from scratch.
IBM spun out their foundries to Global Foundaries (formerly part of AMD) a decade ago, then refused to commit to Global Foundaries next major process upgrades.
Staying on the bleeding edge of silicon requires massive investment, which they weren't willing to make.
https://newsroom.ibm.com/2025-01-02-GlobalFoundries-and-IBM-...