At the moment, Intel is the undisputed king of the data center. The company enjoys a near-monopoly in the server chip market, allowing its data center segment to generate incredible profits. Serious ...

IBM’s Power processors have a storied history; they were notably used in the Watson supercomputer that outsmarted humans in the game of Jeopardy in 2011. The latest chip in the family, called the ...

After a long, long wait and years of anticipation, it looks like IBM is finally getting ready to ship commercial versions of its Power9 chips, and as expected, its first salvo of processors aimed at ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about disruptive companies, technologies and usage models. Today, IBM announced its much anticipated POWER9 chip, its ...

Big Blue has become a big believer in using differential signaling to attach everything – and we mean everything – to the processor. There is an upcoming kicker to the Power9 family, variously called ...

IBM has revealed the first device to use its new Power9 processor, the AC922 Power Systems server, designed for compute-heavy artificial intelligence workloads. IBM claims that, as the first system to ...

After years of being overwhelmingly dominated by Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), the market for server processors is becoming a lot more competitive. Advanced Micro Devices unveiled its EPYC server chips ...

IBM launched its first systems based on its Power9 processor and optimized for artificial intelligence workloads. Big Blue's Power Systems Servers can improve training times of deep learning ...

IBM introduced its “Minsky” IBM Power System S822LC for High Performance Computing (HPC) in 2016. The S822LC is a high performance deep learning platform, but because of the POWER8’s buffered memory ...

In a world that requires increasing amounts of compute power to handle the resource-intensive demands of workloads like artificial intelligence and machine learning, IBM enters the fray with its ...

The next generation of IBM's POWER CPU will give Intel some real competition in the data center. IBM, which sells expensive mainframe systems and high-end servers built around its POWER processors, ...