We don’t normally spend a lot of time writing about IBM mainframes, but these big iron systems drive a lot of transactions in the world – transactions flush with demographics and context that will feed into AI models – and will be doing native and integrated AI processing for the applications that push those applications. …
Updated with just-announced Intel roadmap changes.
It is often said that companies – particularly large companies with enormous IT budgets – do not buy products, they buy roadmaps. …
While the hyperscalers and cloud builders provide the best indicator of what it takes to create state of the art GenAI models and the infrastructure to train them as well as to put them into production for practical use through an API interface, perhaps IBM is one of the best leading indicators for how GenAI will slowly be adopted by the enterprises of the world within their own organizations. …
As the lead engineer on the Power10 processor, Bill Starke already knows what most of us have to guess about Big Blue’s next iteration in a processor family that has been in the enterprise market in one form or another for nearly three decades. …
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