The Other IBM Big Iron That Is On The Horizon

August 23, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The Hot Chips conference is underway this week, historically at Stanford University but this year as was the case last year, is being done virtually thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. There are a lot of new chips that are being discussed in detail, and one of them is not the forthcoming Power10 chip from IBM, which is expected to make its debut sometime in September and which was one of the hot items at last year’s Hot Chips event.

The one processor that IBM is talking about, however, is the “Telum” z16 processor for System z mainframes, and unlike …