SAN FRANCISCO &#151 At the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) here, IBM Corp. tipped its next-generation Power6 processor architecture for servers. In various papers at the event, ...
IBM has taken new steps to open the Power architecture further and expand access to its capabilities. Back in 2013, IBM launched the OpenPower Foundation to allow would-be customers to license IBM ...
The Power architecture doesn’t get the attention it deserves. With Power5 servers finally shipping, even non-Big Blue shops should take look again If all things were equal and IBM made its systems as ...
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Here is a simple algebraic equation that describes the relative computing oomph of two different CPU architectures over the past two decades: If Intel an X86 core is X, then an IBM Power core equals ...
I’ve spent the last several years extensively covering the multi-phase rollout of IBM’s POWER9 processors, built from the ground up for big data, AI and ML. Thanks to the chipset’s high thread count, ...
The IBM POWER architecture has always delivered high-performance computing for business-critical workloads and looking to build on that legacy, they’ve just released their latest version. At this year ...
This week at The Linux Foundation Open Source Summit, IBM announced it is opening the POWER Instruction Set Architecture (ISA). With the ISA and other technologies being contributed to the open ...