Intel Corp (INTC)

[chipguy]

It is an interesting business model. They (IBM) have been selling two
classes of processors for system z for a while. A processor with the
microcode enabled allowing it to run zOs and legacy mainframe apps
costs about a million each while a processor fused so it can only run
Linux costs about $100k. Still an extremely expensive way to run Linux
but far cheaper mainframing than the rent collecting IBM does on old
school users.

I bet HP's coming scale-up x86 gear based on its Superdome2 chipset
is probably just as reliable and a cheaper way to run Linux on SMP big
iron.