IBM has long focused on high-performance computing systems, with
three of the world's top-ten fastest supercomputers using its chips.
International
Business Machines Corp announced on Monday a new processor chip for data
centers that it says will be able to handle three times the workload of its
predecessor.
The IBM-designed Power10 chip will be manufactured by Samsung Electronics Co
Ltd and is meant for use by businesses inside data centers, IBM said.
The chip will use Samsung's
7-nanometer chip manufacturing process, which is similar to the 7-nanometer
technology that Advanced Micro Devices Inc uses to have its chips made by
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd.
Both IBM and AMD
use outside chip factories to compete against Intel Corp, the dominant provider
of central processor chips in data centers and one of the few players left that
both designs and manufactures its own chips.
Intel recently
said its next generation of manufacturing technology faces delays, which
analysts believe will allow its rivals to gain market share.
IBM has long
focused on high-performance computing systems, with three of the world's
top-ten fastest supercomputers using its chips. The company said Monday that
the Power10 chip has been designed to be faster at artificial intelligence
computing tasks than its predecessor, doing such work up to 20 times faster
than its previous generation of chip.
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