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.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15859307" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15859307</a>
Don't get me wrong, I love IBM POWER and am currently contributing to the LibreSOC/LibreGPU<p><a href="https://libre-riscv.org/shakti/m_class/" rel="nofollow">https://libre-riscv.org/shakti/m_class/</a><p>project, but what is the real market for POWER besides niche military use?<p>Who are POWER9 server customers for example? Seems a bit more expensive than competing Xeon.