IBM's software was hit as these were to be ran on their proprietary z17 mainframes (massive centralised supercomputer hardware). The capex for 3rd party servers (think Lego blocked CPU-GPU) engines is for AI workloads which is a different use case from z17. So it's not spending rotating from software to hardware per se, but to build a new gen of infrastructure for the age of AI.
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