IBM has launched the latest generation of its IBM Linuxone – Linuxone 5 servers – that incorporate the IBM Telum II chip.
Big Blue has also signed agreements with Oracle and Lumen, carrying IBM artificial intelligence offers to their respective platforms.
The IBM Linuxone 5 server, according to the company, is able to process up to 450 billion inference operations per day.
The server is equipped with the artificial intelligence processor in Chip Telum II and the IBM Spyre accelerator, which will be available in the fourth quarter of 2025, and is designed for generative and large volume artificial intelligence applications.
The Telum II chip was developed with Samsung 5 Nm technology. It has 32 nuclei distributed in four interconnected clusters and 10 level 2 caches, in addition to an integrated data processing unit of low latency.
The next Spyre accelerator will contain 32 IA accelerator centers with an architecture similar to the accelerator of the integrated in the Telum II chip.
IBM launched its original telum chip in 2021 as its first the processor integrated in the processor, originally designed for the company’s Z16 mainframes. Developed with 7 NM technology, the first generation chip contains eight processor cores and works at more than 5 GHz of clock frequency.
The previous generation of Linuxone servers also used the first IBM Telum chip, announced at the end of 2022 and launched in April 2023.
IBM takes Watsonx to the Edge de Lume cloud
IBM and Lumen Technologies are collaborating to carry artificial intelligence products from the first to the Edge de Lumen cloud infrastructure.
IBM will integrate its Watsonx products portfolio with the Lumen Network, bringing the inference capabilities to the data source.
IBM Watsonx technology will be implemented in Lummen Edge Data Centers and will be accessible through its multicloud architecture. According to one Lumen Technical Data SheetThe company has more than 200 data centers in North America, with more than 560,000 kilometers of trunk fiber.
“Business leaders not only want to explore AI, but they need to climb it quickly, profitably and safely,” he said Ryan Asdourian, Marketing Director and Lumen Strategy. “By combining innovation in IBM with the powerful network of Lumen, we are turning the vision into action, facilitating access to real -time intelligence where their data is found, accelerating innovation and offering more intelligent and fast client experiences.”
“Our collaboration with Lumen underlines our firm commitment to connect with customers wherever they are, carrying the power of the business and the hybrid cloud where the data is found,” he said Adam Lawrence, General Director of Technology for the Americas of IBM. “Together, we help customers accelerate their transition to AI with faster speed, flexibility and safety, promoting new cases of use in the EDGE, from automated customer service to predictive maintenance and smart supply chains.”
IBM is associated with Oracle
IBM has also associated with Oracle to take Watsonx to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
As of July of this year, IBM will offer your agent Watsonx Orchestrate AI through OCI. Orchestrate ai will work with the offers of AI agents already integrated in OCI and with the other services of the cloud platform.
IBM agents are executed in Watson Orchestrate in Red Hat Openshift in OCI, even in public, sovereign, governmental and Oracle Alloy regions, and can also be housed in the facilities.
IBM will also bring its Granite models to the Data Science of OCI platform.
“The AI offers the most significant value when it is integrated perfectly throughout the company,” he said Greg Pavlik, executive vice president of AI services and data management of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. “IBM and Oracle have been collaborating for decades to boost the success of their clients, and our expanded alliance will offer new ways to transform their businesses with AI.”
“By integrating our AI with Oracle’s offers, we facilitate companies the implementation and management of AI agents throughout their organization,” he added Kareem Yusuf, Ph.D., Senior Vice President of Ecosystem, Strategic Partners and IBM initiatives. “Our collaboration with Oracle demonstrates how IBM and our partners offer customers a fluid and flexible way to climb AI.”
In April of this year, IBM announced its next -generation Mainframe: the Z17. According to the company, The Z17 is specifically designed to withstand AI capabilities in hardware, software and systems operations, and will be available from June 18, 2025.
During the company’s latest presentation, IBM revealed that it had lost 15 federal contracts as a result of Doge -related cuts.
