Centaur (buffer chip)

IBM Adds POWER9 AIO, Pushes for an Open Memory-Agnostic Interface

November 3, 2019May 25, 2021 David Schor Centaur (buffer chip), Hot Chips 31, IBM, NVLink, Open Memory Interface (OMI), open source, OpenCAPI, Power ISA, POWER9

IBM adds a third variant of POWER9, the POWER9 Advanced I/O (AIO) processor which incorporates the Open Memory Interface (OMI), a new open memory-agnostic interface.