Can Ibm Push Power9 To Compete With Intel Xeon Processor?

The current information center market is almost the world of Intel (Intel) Xeon server, and IBM hopes that Power9 will be a market black horse by virtue of its additional performance and price advantages, to meet the various data intensive workload of the cognitive computing age (cognitive era).

According to the Analytics India web site, the enhanced core and chip architecture will enable the Power9 processor to have better thread efficiency and higher output, and will be more able to handle applications such as HPC workload, large scale data center, analysis and machine learning.

Motley Fool reports that data center CPU and PC CPU market are Intel's largest source of revenue, while Intel also controls about 99% of the CPU market in the information center. Power9 is currently the most opportunity to challenge Intel's products. In order to grab some market share from Intel, IBM emphasized the ability of Power9 processor to cooperate with artificial intelligence and cloud technology.

Technology analysts say that if IBM processors can be combined with GPU, the results will be amazing. Next Platform reports that IBM is much better than Intel on the memory bandwidth of each slot.

The processor technology of IBM has won the favor of many manufacturers. Google most of the infrastructure is Power server. In addition, HPC Wire reported that Google is working with RackSpace to develop a Power9 server called Zaius.