An Interview with Susan Eickhoff and Christian Jacobi from IBM at Hot Chips 2024 | Interview #3

[@Daxwax101]

Thanks for the interview. Interesting to hear a bit about what's happening at IBM. As someone more on the embedded side of things, I don't really hear too much about what they are up to.

[@Askejm]

great interview

[@1samm1]

Oh, I wasn't aware that IBM still has some concrete projects not only consultancy service provider and payment collection per existing mainframe MIPS. Thanks for this interview!

[@skurtz97]

It's a fair criticism and meme about their business practices for the company as a whole...but I think the one thing you can't criticize their systems division for is not having concrete hardware projects. They haven't really ever stopped doing new hardware, and usually pretty cool hardware. It's just rare to hear about it outside of that very tight knit community because of the way the customer base is.

[@xr4nchy]

@@skurtz97just out of curiosity who are their consumer base ?

[@Musikvidedo]

​​@@xr4nchyjust going off the interview it seems like it's certain types of very big enterprise clients. Susan talked about less than 200 clients.. Think about what kind of size those need to operate on for a whole chip development effort to make sense on IBM's side. They themselves say this (just search the quote to be able to see the documents they reference): "In a recent IBM report, 45 of the top 50 banks, 4 of the top 5 airlines, 7 of the top 10 global retailers and 67 of the Fortune 100 companies leverage the mainframe as their core platform. Moreover, a study from the IBM Institute of Business Value (IBV) showed that mainframes handle almost 70% of the world’s production IT workloads and 70% of executives surveyed believe that mainframe-based applications are central to their business strategy. "

[@CaptainMcShotgun41]

There was audio issues?