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IBM releases Power ISA v3.1. Among the new instructions, there is new bfloat16 support, new reduced-precision outer-product operations including 4-bit integers, and new instruction prefixes. IBM plans on presenting POWER10 at Hot Chips 32.
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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.
Read moreAt the recent OpenPOWER Summit, IBM outlined their new roadmap, open-sourced the Power ISA, and made a number of additional announcements.
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IBM partners up with Samsung 7nm EUV process for their next-generation of POWER and Z microprocessors.
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A look at the IBM POWER9 scale-up design recently disclosed at Hot Chips 30 and their plans for a 3rd POWER9 derivative for 2019.
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A look at the 200-petaFLOPS Summit supercomputer which was officially unveiled last Friday by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
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