IBM Just Showed Off a Chip That Runs Two Instruction Sets at Once. The Company Is 115 Years Old. Most Companies That Old Are Dead.
IBM's new dual-ISA mainframe chip is the same trick it's pulled for 115 years. Sears is the same age and it's dead. The difference isn't adaptation — it's whether whoever controls a company has to live with what happens to it, tested against Sears, Standard Oil, AT&T, Xerox, and Kodak.
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