Seems it was also discussed earlier on HackerNews about how POWER9 isn't unreasonably expensive - but couldn't seem to glean who are the real server customers.
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project, but what is the real market for POWER besides niche military use?
Who are POWER9 server customers for example? Seems a bit more expensive than competing Xeon.