THE LEGACY AND FUTURE OF IBM POWER
WITH IBM POWER10
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IBM NEWS
IBM today
revealed the next generation of its IBM POWER central processing unit (CPU)
family: IBM POWER10. Designed to offer a platform to meet the unique needs of
enterprise hybrid cloud computing, the IBM POWER10 processor uses a design
focused on energy efficiency and performance in a 7nm form factor with an
expected improvement of up to 3x greater processor energy efficiency, workload
capacity, and container density than the IBM POWER9 processor.1
Designed
over five years with hundreds of new and pending patents, the IBM POWER10
processor is an important evolution in IBM's roadmap for POWER. Systems taking
advantage of IBM POWER10 are expected to be available in the second half of
2021. Some of the new processor innovations include:
- IBM's
First Commercialized 7nm Processor that is expected to deliver up to a 3x
improvement in capacity and processor energy efficiency within the same power
envelope as IBM POWER9, allowing for greater performance.1
- Support
for Multi-Petabyte Memory Clusters with a breakthrough new technology called
Memory Inception, designed to improve cloud capacity and economics for
memory-intensive workloads from ISVs like SAP, the SAS Institute, and others as
well as large-model AI inference.
- New
Hardware-Enabled Security Capabilities including transparent memory encryption
designed to support end-to-end security. The IBM POWER10 processor is
engineered to achieve significantly faster encryption performance with
quadruple the number of AES encryption engines per core compared to IBM POWER9
for today's most demanding standards and anticipated future cryptographic
standards like quantum-safe cryptography and fully homomorphic encryption. It
also brings new enhancements to container security.
- New
Processor Core Architectures in the IBM POWER10 processor with an embedded
Matrix Math Accelerator which is extrapolated to provide 10x, 15x and 20x
faster AI inference for FP32, BFloat16 and INT8 calculations per socket
respectively than the IBM POWER9 processor to infuse AI into business
applications and drive greater insights.
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