The CPU: Telum. The latest generation of the Z-series CPU that mainframes are built on is called Telum. A modern chip clocked at 5.2 GHz, it’s built on Samsung’s 7 nm fabrication process, and ...

From here, four Telum CPU packages combine to make one four-socket "drawer," and four of those drawers go into a single mainframe system. This provides 256 total cores on 32 CPUs.

Nevertheless, some organizations have abandoned (or are trying to) the mainframe for more modern workloads: Java, XML, Linux, web development, etc. By offering inexpensive specialty processors for the ...

IBM's fastest mainframe computer to date has a Telum II CPU with on-chip AI coprocessor There is also an AI accelerator that it hopes will make it an attractive option The IBM z17 brings Big Blue ...

IBM has announced the Telum II Processor with shared on-chip AI and, perhaps surprisingly, the Spyre Accelerator, delivered on a PCIe card and designed to accelerate AI models, including LLM ...

IBM took the wraps off a new mainframe computer on Tuesday, promising it will help customers to detect more fraud in real time and plow through billions of transactions generated each day by ...

Unisys is phasing out its decades-old mainframe processor, which lags behind in speed and scalability compared to newer chips. The chip is used in some of Unisys’ ClearPath flagship mainframes ...

For IBM, the mainframe has already found new life as a place to run AI. The company’s latest mainframe can immediately return results from AI models, it said, with an on-system processor that ...

IBM's goal with the zIIP processor is to help centralize back-end workloads on the mainframe, rather than across multiple distributed systems.

The computer also hosts three different microcodes, each providing a unique instruction set. Two are based on computers from Princeton, Toy-A, and Toy-B, used as teaching tools.

Unisys is phasing out its decades-old mainframe processor, which lags behind in speed and scalability compared to newer chips. The chip is used in some of Unisys’ ClearPath flagship mainframes ...