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Talos plan to, if demand allows, sell you a bare bones POWER8 (CPU, heatsink, and mainboard) for $3,700 USD. https://raptorengineeringinc.com/TALOS/prerelease.php



Sadly that's $1000 more than they were originally talking about; still low compared to IBMs prices, but much harder to justify for most applications.


Yes, very hard to justify when a high-end 4-core Xeon outperforms on some benchmarks[0] and costs half as much or less. Not to mention vastly mature open source floating point, compiler, etc, support. As well as existing (invalid, but still) programs that assume x86isms.

[0]: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=talos-wo...




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