What is the market share of Power chips? I know Google tried to build white box servers with Power chips last year, and I am not hearing about it anymore.
I used to work on SPARC chips at Oracle. Within the last year Oracle has completely scrapped that project – chips, systems, boxes, Solaris, everything Sun Microsystems related (except for Java) is gone. Did not matter how good the CPU was they could not sell it. IBM is going to have the same fate. No matter how good Power9 is I do not see a future for the Power Architecture. And that is a shame.
Bill Jurasz