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IBM's Power11 Processor Architecture

Third up on today’s CPU track is IBM. Big Blue is at the conference to talk about its latest generation Power architecture chip, the Power11. IBM starts off by recapping Power. Why it exists, and what IBM’s goals are for the processor and architecture. IBM is very system-focused, rather than focusing on selling just CPUs. […]

Recapping the Power release history, Power10 has proven to be very successful for IBM, “beyond our wildest dreams.” As a result, Power11 is not a substantial change from Power10; it builds upon Power10 rather than replacing large parts of it. This means working on everything from quantum safety for resilience against future attacks, up to improving how to go about deploying updates to systems. In short, like everyone else, IBM can’t rely on smaller process nodes to deliver large performance and density uplifts.

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