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mikewang | 5 years ago

I tried to google it. And two passages. The common point is "high-efficiency, built-in virtualization solution, as well as its ability to support massive enterprise-class workloads without requiring the type of massive infrastructure that you would need to do the same using x86 chips"

Power supports virtualization from chip level which looks excellent. But heard little that company would like to transfer to power from x86.

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tgflynn|5 years ago

That sounds more like marketing hype than anything else. Intel chips also support virtualization that is far more widely used (basically all the cloud providers - AWS, Google, Azure, etc.). As for lower infrastructure costs, I have trouble believing that. If you look up the specs on Power chips you'll find that they're aptly named, they're power hungry beasts.