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IBM to merge microelectronics and server groups.
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I see this IBM reshuffling as a move toward their ultimate goal of ousting Intel. IBM finally has a chip that competes at the low end (PPC 970), and Intel enemy AMD is working in cahoots with IBM. I think we're gonna see IBM relying less and less on Xeon-based servers. The Linux push also facilitates this, since (as IBM has published), Linux on PPC and Linux on x86 look pretty much the same overall to most users.
IBM to merge server, chip groups
Merging the two groups will mean IBM can do a better job applying technology and expertise from outside work to its own Power processors, one source said. Ultimately, IBM hopes the majority of the computing world will move to one of two basic chip designs: Intel's "x86" processors, such as the Pentium or Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron, and IBM's Power processors such as its Power5 coming later this year or the PowerPC 970 used in Apple's G5 and IBM's JS20 blade server.
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