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The Future of Big Iron: An Interview with IBM’s Christian Jacobi


An Interview with IBM’s Christian Jacobi

As part of the launch, I was able to sit down and chat with Dr. Christian Jacobi, IBM Fellow and CTO of Systems Development, who was the lead on Telum I and has spent over 20 years at the company in various forms of hardware design. What happens in those enterprise-class protocols is they communicate with the main processors, where the transaction workload is running, and creates address lists like about where the next block of data needs to be put in the database buffer pool. The companies that fall under this banner include AMD, Applied Materials, Armari, ASM, Ayar Labs, Baidu, Dialectica, Facebook, GLG, Guidepoint, IBM, Impala, Infineon, Intel, Kuehne+Nagel, Lattice Semi, Linode, MediaTek, NordPass, NVIDIA, ProteanTecs, Qualcomm, SiFive, SIG, SiTime, Supermicro, Synopsys, Tenstorrent, Third Bridge, TSMC, Untether AI, Ventana Micro.

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