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		joebergeron on March 22, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Power 9 May Dent X86 Servers: Alibaba, Google, Ten... Is "Power 9" purposefully a Magic reference? Or just a coincidence?

Twirrim on March 22, 2018 | [–]

The CPU architecture has been called POWER since 1990, and this is the 9th generation of it, hence POWER9.

MtG didn't come out until 1993. So yes, it's a co-incidence.

Nomentatus on March 22, 2018 | | [–]

Or causation in the other direction.

WorldMaker on March 22, 2018 | [–]

A coincidence. This is referring to the 9th generation of IBM's POWER processors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_POWER_microprocessors

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