POWER9

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.

Architectures OpenPOWER Summit Roadmaps Server Processors

IBM Open Sources Power ISA, Delays POWER10 to 2021

September 12, 2019May 25, 2021 David Schor IBM, OpenPOWER, OpenPOWER Summit, OpenPOWER Summit 2019, POWER, Power ISA, 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.

Architectures Floorplanning Hot Chips 30 Interconnects Server Processors

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

October 7, 2018May 25, 2021 David Schor 14 nm, 14HP, A-Bus, Centaur, Hot Chips, Hot Chips 30, IBM, NVLink, OpenCAPI, POWER, Power ISA, 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.