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shrimppersimmontoday at 10:53 AM3 repliesview on HN

They design and build not one but two CPU architectures, s390/Z and POWER.

Both have been around for many years, but neither is obsolete, they're just not designed for consumer applications.

They still generate $10-15 billion per year in revenue.


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erutoday at 11:12 AM

Power was used in customer applications a long time ago? I think Apple used them for a while and so did some game consoles?

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kitdtoday at 1:35 PM

They also designed the Cell CPU used in Nintendo Wiis, among others.

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panick21_today at 12:14 PM

The designed many, many more CPU architectures.