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 ...

In a world that requires increasing amounts of compute power to handle the resource-intensive demands of workloads like artificial intelligence and machine learning, IBM enters the fray with its ...

At the end of July, Oak Ridge National Laboratories started receiving the first racks of servers that will eventually be expanded to become the “Summit” supercomputer, the long-awaited replacement to ...

Intel's x86 architecture dominates the server space, but don't count Power9 out altogether. IBM's CPU family is picking up design wins from companies working in AI and data centers. Share on Facebook ...

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 ...

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 ...

IBM began designing the POWER9 processor four years ago, with the aim of building a new architecture able to handle the massive amounts of data involved in AI and deep learning workloads. POWER8, the ...

The server race is really afoot now that IBM has finally gotten off the starting blocks with its first Power9 system, based on its “Nimbus” variant of that processor and turbocharged with the latest ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about disruptive companies, technologies and usage models. Today, IBM announced its much anticipated POWER9 chip, its ...

IBM introduced its “Minsky” IBM Power System S822LC for High Performance Computing (HPC) in 2016. The S822LC is a high performance deep learning platform, but because of the POWER8’s buffered memory ...