Because I really dont. Yes Power used to dominated performance. I have always thought with every tick and tock Intel has closed the gap or leap forward already.<p>But where is it used? Is it shrinking? I have no idea, at least everything have shown
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theplatform.net&#x2F;2015&#x2F;06&#x2F;04&#x2F;x86-servers-dominate-the-datacenter-for-now&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theplatform.net&#x2F;2015&#x2F;06&#x2F;04&#x2F;x86-servers-dominate-t...</a><p>Intel is still winning &#x2F; dominating, there were talks of Google using POWER8, haven&#x27;t seen anything more. And knowing Intel with a clear Roadmap coming up.<p>Do Power8 have any place in Cloud Computing?<p>I too, wish Intel would have more competition, but i dont see the choice of using it. Most of the distributed and In Memory Processing aren&#x27;t using it. But then I guess i am not the target audience.