IBM’s Mainframe is releasing the latest version of hardware that includes new updates to accelerate AI adoption.
The hardware and consulting agency IBM Z 17 on Monday, this is the latest version of the mainframe computer hardware. This fully encrypted mainframe is powered by an IBM Telum II processor and designed to use more than 250 AIs, the company says the AI agent and generator AI.
Mainframes may seem like old huts, but today they are used by 71% of Fortune 500 companies, According to a sourceThe In 2024, the consultant Farm Market Research Future for the Mainframe market was worth approximately $ 5.3 billion.
Z 17 can process 450 billion infections operations in a day, it increases 50% than its predecessor, IBM Z 16, which was published in 2022 and the company’s main telum processor was in the processor. The system is designed to fully integrate with other hardware, software and open source equipment.
IBM Z Product Management and Design VP Tina Tarkinio told TechCrunch that this mainframe upgrade has been working for five years – before the current AI madness and the publication of the ChatzP of the Openai in November 2022.
With the creation of IBM Z17, more than 200,000 research time has been spent to get a response from more than 100 customers, Tarkinio said. He thinks it is interesting to see that now, five years later, the reaction they reached in the market were combined.
“Knowing that we are introducing an AI accelerator, and then watching, especially in the next half of 2022, all changes in AI related art,” Tarkinio told TechCrunch. “It was really exciting. I think the biggest thing has been [that] We don’t know what we don’t know, isn’t it? So the possibilities are really unlimited in terms of what AI can help us to do. “
Turkey also said that the Z 17 AI market was set up to adapt and adjust to where the main is the main. After the release of the mainframe, the 48 IBM Spier will support AI Accelerator chips in the IBM Spier, with a plan to bring the number up to 96 within 12 months.
“We are intentionally making in the headroom,” said Tarakinio. “We are intentionally creating AI agitation. Thus new models have been introduced, [we’re] We make sure that we have created in the headroom for bigger, larger models – models that may need more local memory to talk to each other. We’ve made it because we know that it is true that the method will change, isn’t it? New models will come and will go. “
Tarkinio said that one of the main things of this latest hardware was that he was joking that it was asked to pick his beloved child-this is more powerful than the predecessors of Z 17 and the supposed contestants.
“On-chip, we are extending the AI acceleration seven and a half times, but it is five and a half times less energy than you have a multi-model like other types of art or platform,” Tarkinio said.
Z 17 mainframes will usually be available on June 8th.