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How about performance per watt? Is it worth recompiling all of that software?

[chipguy]

Power 8 will lose very few benchmarks if any.

It will likely lose badly in perf/Watt (socket or system) and perf/$.
Not so much at release but increasingly over time as has every
previous POWER system. Given shrinking shipments of high
margin Unix systems IBM's fixed costs impact how much it
can subsidize sales of POWER Linux boxes against x86. The
general purpose server market is well into the end game and
this often repeated "open fever" gambit has never worked for
any other RISC architecture. It's a clear sign of desperation.

Software incumbancy and system/silicon economy of scale;
x86 has it in servers and RISC doesn't.

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Hmm...makes me even more interested in A8 and beyond...Apple hired a lot of the guys who were working on Power 9 from what I can tell.

[Professor MD]

MAS

OpenPower is a much bigger threat to DCG than any ARM server effort especially if Google is interested it in volume.

What is “DCG”?