Beginning as an IBM research project in the 1970s,
IBM Power CPUs have been helping organizations
of all sizes innovate for decades.
"Reduced instruction set computing—or RISC—
pioneered by IBM.
Improved now with a second generation of RISC.
The POWER architecture.
Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC."
"We believed we were making a more advanced RISC machine,
and we did whatever we thought was necessary
to get the best possible cost performance."
"Gary Kasparov has resigned the position,
in a stunning, stunning development."
"Watson."
"What is executor."
"Right."
"Same category, sixteen-hundred."
"Answer—Daily Double!"
IBM POWER-based CPUs
can be found in the smartest AI supercomputers in the world,
game consoles
and throughout the solar system in satellites
and in planetary rovers on Mars.
But POWER has been especially pivotal for enterprises.
Many of the world's largest banks,
retailers
and healthcare systems
literally rely on IBM POWER to power their business.
Now, POWER brings its legacy of innovation to the hybrid cloud
with the launch of IBM POWER10.
Designed over five years
with hundreds of new and pending patents,
IBM POWER10 is built to meet the needs
of enterprise cloud computing environments
that demand security, reliability and performance.
But what makes IBM POWER10 unique from its predecessors?
First, energy efficiency.
IBM POWER10 is IBM's first seven nanometer processor,
and it delivers three times greater energy efficiency and capacity—
allowing for greater performance
and more work.
Second, scalability.
IBM has made memory more available in the cloud
with a significant breakthrough in IBM POWER10
called Memory Inception.
This all sounds very sci-fi,
but essentially, this clusters physical memory
across a pool of systems,
where any of the systems in the pool
can access the entire pooled memory—
up to multi-petabyte memory clusters.
This allows for businesses
to reduce their costs on the cloud
for memory-intensive workloads.
Third, AI.
With AI improvements to its CPU cores,
IBM POWER10 delivers up to 20 times better performance
for AI inference workloads than IBM POWER9,
meaning it can take previously trained AI models
and deduce new information up to 20 times faster
than IBM POWER9.
This brings greater infusion of AI workloads
into typical enterprise workloads on the hybrid cloud.
And last but not least, Security.
In today's world of cyber threats,
your data needs to be secure,
wherever it resides.
IBM POWER10 has four times
as many encryption engines per core as IBM POWER9,
keeping your data safe in the hybrid cloud.
Over decades, IBM POWER has been elemental and vital
to shifting technology trends.
And as the world has changed and moved to the cloud,
POWER10 underscores IBM's belief
in the fourth platform of IT—hybrid cloud.
With co-optimized hardware and software,
IBM POWER10-based servers
will deliver the future of the hybrid cloud.