Re: OT: IBM's Power to power Boeing's 787

JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Imagine if Alpha were still alive and had won that contract to
supply the systems to Boeing.

The article says something about 30 "computer systems" per plane.
Wikipedia suggests there are presently ~487 orders for the plane. The
delivery dates seem to stretch-out to 2012. So, call it 500 sets of
30 processor or 1500 CPUs over the next five years or 300 CPUs per
year. While it _could_ be as successful as the 737, figure it remains
in production for a further 5 years for another 500 planes.

Not sure just how exciting that would be from a numbers perspective.

rick jones
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