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A Bit More Insight Into IBM’s “Spyre” AI Accelerator For Power

October 20, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan

If anything is clear right now, it is that Nvidia does not need to get any richer in the GenAI revolution, and neither does its foundry partner, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. But everyone else, including IBM and specifically its Power Systems business, desperately needs to do something to catch the GenAI wave and make some money in this once-in-a-millennia opportunity.

Our thesis, as you well know, is that for IBM i shops, code assistants that can help document, update, modernize, or port RPG and COBOL application code to newer languages and modular programming techniques is the killer app for GenAI, …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 42

October 20, 2025 Doug Bidwell

Just a reminder that IBM’s System Planning Tool Version 6.25.287.0 is available for download. You can get the feeds and speeds of SPT 4, 6, and 6 at this link and the download for the latest version at this link. This one has features for adding the “Spyre” AI accelerator to Power Systems, among many other updates.

Other than that update to SPT, it has been a pretty quiet week here at the IBM i PTF Guide.

Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release level since we last published:

PTF Groups 7.6:
- HIPERs (High
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Gartner Raises IT Spending Forecast For 2024 Again

November 11, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The boom of GenAI just keeps getting louder, and the increasing spending by the hyperscalers and clouds are giving air cover to IT shops all over the world who want to weave GenAI technologies into the applications and processes of their companies and who therefore want to get more IT budget.

IT spending forecasts are useful because they tell us where we think we are going and they also tell us how our IT shop measures up against the average of all of the IT shops in the world. The typical enterprise is definitely not spending anywhere near as much …
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RPG Code Assist Is The Killer App For AI-Enhanced Power Systems

October 23, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan

“I love it when a plan comes together.” – Colonel John “Hannibal” Smith, The A Team.

Look, we take our wisdom and our joy where we can find it here at The Four Hundred, and it does indeed look like Big Blue has a plan that is coming together with regards to generative AI and the Power Systems hardware platform as it relates to the IBM i software platform.

We told you in Monday’s issue that IBM was up to something with regard to the Power Systems line, which was revealed to partners and presumably key …
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A Bit More Insight Into IBM’s “Spyre” AI Accelerator For Power

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 42

Gartner Raises IT Spending Forecast For 2024 Again

RPG Code Assist Is The Killer App For AI-Enhanced Power Systems

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