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IBM Z/OS v2.5, Next-Gen Operating System Designed for Hybrid Cloud and AI
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jul 2021

Oh boy, that memory bus... I'll get to that in a second. First, yes, IBM creates IP blocks that they then license. Maybe I'm weird, but I view that as software - and I also heartily dislike IP block shops. What makes matters worse is how IBM has an awful track record when it comes to these licenses - they somehow always pick a partner that ensures the tech seeing little to no use. For example, you mentioned their memory bus... guess how they did that: they licensed (or sold?) Centaur to a single party, Microchip, who lists[0] a single memory controller with no price and no apparent interest in actually selling the thing. Also, Synopsys - one of those fabless companies that I love so much, is somehow involved[1]... resulting in memory controller binary blobs. It is pretty awesome really, I don't think IBM could have more surely murdered their tech if they'd tried.
Now I'm pulling for them, I actually own a POWER9 machine. I think it is great that they want to get memory controllers out of the CPU - but they've done it in such a way that leads me to believe that it is an intentional sabotage, which would only happen if they genuinely had no interest in an active hardware role.
[0] https://www.microchip.com/en-us/product/PM8596
[1] https://github.com/open-power/ocmb-explorer-fw/blob/6570112a...
In the future even your RAM will have firmware; and the subject of POWER10 blobs
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Feb 2021

> contrary to the README above, the repository contains no source code
It does! It's not in the mainline source tree, but is tagged. The most recent source tree appears to be https://github.com/open-power/ocmb-explorer-fw/tree/ea3fae3c...