IBM’s OpenPower alliance with Nvidia has borne its first fruit in the form of a $325 million contract from the U.S. government’s Department of Energy to build two of the world’s fastest supercomputers. A huge Power9 processor-based machine codenamed Summit will be installed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee by 2017. It will […]
IBM’s processor sell-off may have stalled
IBM may not be selling its processor businesses to GlobalFoundries after all, according to a Bloomberg report. On Friday, the American news agency posted a story that said IBM had walked away from the negotiating table because GlobalFoundries’ offer for its chip operation was too small. Neither party had been willing to comment either way. […]