But if you look at something like IBM’s mainframe Telum chip, you’ll get some ideas. The Telum II has “only” eight cores, but they run at 5.5 GHz. Unimpressed? It also has 360 MB of on ...

Multi-modal AI support, faster chips and AI accelerators are among forthcoming mainframe upgrades that promise big changes.

The accelerator should support AI model workloads across the mainframe while consuming 75 watts or less of energy per card. Each chip has 32 compute cores that support int4, int8, fp8, and fp16 ...