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IBM Open Sources Power ISA, Delays POWER10 to 2021

David SchorArchitectures, OpenPOWER Summit, Roadmaps, Server ProcessorsSeptember 12, 2019 Tagged IBM, OpenPOWER, OpenPOWER Summit, OpenPOWER Summit 2019, POWER, POWER10, POWER9, PowerAXON

At the recent OpenPOWER Summit, IBM outlined their new roadmap, open-sourced the Power ISA, and made a number of additional announcements.

IBM Chooses Samsung 7nm EUV for Next-Gen POWER and Z Microprocessors

David SchorFoundries, Process Technologies, Roadmaps, Server ProcessorsDecember 20, 2018 Tagged 7LPP, 7nm, Common Platform Alliance, EUV, IBM, POWER, POWER10, Samsung, Z

IBM partners up with Samsung 7nm EUV process for their next-generation of POWER and Z microprocessors.

POWER9 Scales Up To 1.2 TB/s of I/O, Targets NVLink 3, OpenCAPI Memory for 2019

David SchorArchitectures, Floorplanning, Hot Chips 30, Interconnects, Server ProcessorsOctober 7, 2018 Tagged 14HP, 14nm, A-Bus, Centaur, Hot Chips, Hot Chips 30, IBM, NVLink, OpenCAPI, POWER, POWER9, PowerAXON, X-Bus

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.

ORNL’s 200-petaFLOPS Summit Supercomputer Has Arrived, To Become World’s Fastest

David SchorSupercomputersJune 16, 2018 Tagged DoE, IBM, Nvidia, NVLink, ORNL, PCIe 4.0, POWER, Supercomputer

A look at the 200-petaFLOPS Summit supercomputer which was officially unveiled last Friday by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).