At the moment, Intel is the undisputed king of the data center. The company enjoys a near-monopoly in the server chip market, allowing its data center segment to generate incredible profits. Serious ...

IBM has many goals with its upcoming Power9 chip, and one is to challenge the dominance of Intel’s x86 chips in the data center. The company wants chips based on Power architecture to take a ...

IBM’s Power processors have a storied history; they were notably used in the Watson supercomputer that outsmarted humans in the game of Jeopardy in 2011. The latest chip in the family, called the ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More At the Hot Chips 2020 conference, which was held virtually this year, IBM ...

'It certainly paints a picture that AMD is going to be a significant factor for the continuing years,' one AMD partner says of former IBM Power development lead Joshua Friedrich joining the chipmaker ...

New Processor Core Architectures in the IBM POWER10 processor with an embedded Matrix Math Accelerator which is extrapolated to provide 10x, 15x and 20x faster AI inference for FP32, BFloat16 and INT8 ...

ARMONK, N.Y., Aug. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today revealed the next generation of its IBM POWER central processing unit (CPU) family: IBM POWER10. Designed to offer a platform to meet ...

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, ...