IBM unveils Telum to combat financial fraud in real time
Summary
IBM has unveiled a new processor, codenamed Telum, which it says will accelerate artificial intelligence (AI) processing on its Z-series mainframes. Developed over the last three years by IBM’s Research AI Hardware Center, the chip contains eight processor cores with a deep super-scalar out-of-order instruction pipeline, running with more than 5GHz clock frequency. “We worked with the Z team to make it accessible to deal with high transaction.” The acceleration is provided via a new instruction, which is programmed under the Z processor core, said Jacobi. According to Jacobi, the new AI accelerator chip is optimised to provide direct access to the memory where data is stored. On top of that runs the operating system and AI framework software, exploiting the new Neural Network Processing Assist instruction that is the software-level view onto the on-chip accelerator.