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IT Home reported on August 27 that IBM issued a press release yesterday (August 26), announcing the launch of the next-generation Telum II processor and Spyre AI accelerator for the latest IBM Z mainframe system for AI application scenarios.

Telum II Processor

The processor is equipped with 8 high-performance cores, running at a clock frequency of 5.5 GHz, each core has 36MB of L2 cache, and the on-chip cache capacity is a total of 360MB, a 40% increase over the previous generation.

Each processor has 2.88GB of virtual Level-4 cache, a 40 percent increase over the previous generation.

The integrated AI accelerator enables low-latency, high-throughput AI reasoning in transactions, such as enhanced fraud detection in financial transactions, and the computing power per chip is four times higher than the previous generation. IT Home attaches the relevant pictures as follows:

Spyre AI Accelerator

This is an enterprise-grade accelerator designed to provide scalable capabilities for complex AI models and generative AI use cases.

It features up to 1TB of memory and can work in tandem across eight cards in a common IO drawer to support AI model workloads on mainframes, while consuming no more than 75W per card.

Each chip will have 32 compute cores and support int4, int8, fp8, and fp16 data types for low-latency and high-throughput AI applications.