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According to their 10Q and 10K filings, IBM is over seventy percent a consultation business with less than ten percent of revenue being made from hardware.

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So with RedHat and the remains of IBMs hardware division, they make a push into the cloud with their own RISC-V servers with chips fabbed on an advanced node and with a full software stack driven by both IBM and RedHat developers. They'd be vertical in their cloud offerings.

You don't need to tell me I'm hallucinating - I know. But it's fun to imagine something good coming from this rather than the simple destruction of RedHat.

Why would they drop OpenPOWER for RISC-V?

>> Why would they drop OpenPOWER for RISC-V?

IBM is member of the RISC-V foundation. If they could make a similar high performance server chip with RISC-V ISA I'd take that over OpenPOWER any day due to the much wider acceptance of it. They could also support both and see which goes further.

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