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1. rwmj · 1789652371 · focus · HN ↗

   It's Arm based, although they barely mention that.

   1. shrubble · 1789655968 · focus · HN ↗

      Interesting to note that Fujitsu did this when the SPARC architecture was popular: they enhanced/developed a CPU for the same ABI.

      Seems they have decided they don’t want to create their own architecture, but take the popular architecture and build on it.

      1. qmarchi · 1789656987 · focus · HN ↗

         Thanks kinda how Japan works. Inventing something new is hard, but taking something that's a cool idea and making it actually usable is well within their wheelhouse.

         See: - Blue LEDs - Quartz Watches - Lithium-ion Batteries - Bidets

         1. whizzter · 1789660338 · focus · HN ↗

            I'm sure there's plenty of other stuff invented in Japan, but that's really beside the point.

            The industry is now mature enough that nobody really wants the headache of a new architecture at this point in time, Risc-V got a pass for being a grassroots movement growing out off FPGA's since the IP situation was more or less clear or even predatory with all existing architectures, Power, Sparc,SuperH,68k,etc are buried for good reasons.

            1. FlowingRiver · 1789688766 · focus · HN ↗

               POWER is still holding on just barely but I do suspect that IBM are looking to sunset it in the next few years.

               1. pezezin · 1789693346 · focus · HN ↗

                  Given that IBM just announced a dual-ISA mainframe with support for both z/arch and ARM, they might indeed be looking to sunset POWER.

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