IBM in the spring this year, launched 22-nm processors Power8. According to the chief of engineering and manufacturing IBM - Arvind Krishna m new company processors have double the bandwidth of the memory accesses, and eight times more computing executable threads than Intel processors . At the same time, IBM recognized that the sale of the class Power down significantly and it is unlikely that they will return to the previous volume. Only last year, sales in this segment decreased by 30% to $ 3.9 billion in 2005, for example, IBM entered the peak of its features with annual sales revenue mainframe at $ 7.5 billion
Strengthen Power-line systems, IBM expects to see search for partners in its open initiative Open Power Foundation. Google has recently shown developed in its bosom board supporting Power-processor IBM. Another partner IBM - NVIDIA company - also has plans symbiosis Power processors and accelerators Tesla. But IBM had hoped for more. According to Krishna, the participants of Open Power Foundation can independently develop and produce solutions Power repeated design or additions.
Incidentally, IBM admitted that the sale of the semiconductor business and factories may face serious obstacles. IBM company has two factories . One in East Fishkill (300 mm, 22-nm process technology), the other in Burlington (200 mm tehprotsessy 350 nm to 90 nm SOI). Second production serves government contracts and can not be transferred to other company, even with partial foreign control. GlobalFoundries company is almost completely controlled by representatives of the Arab Fund.