IBM’s Telum Chip: A Powerful Mainframe Processor with AI Accelerator and Enhanced Security
Telum Chip – IBM’s Latest Mainframe Processor
IBM announced a new processor called the Telum chip that’s specifically designed for mainframe workloads like credit card fraud scoring and other complex transaction systems. Its redesigned Z core and cache architecture enable over 40% performance growth per socket.
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The Z Chip is a new processor that is part of the system-z mainframe family, and it will be used to offload Db2 processing in the IBM System z9 and later mainframes. It has a redesigned branch prediction with integrated 1st/2nd level BTB, dynamic BTB entry reconfiguration, and over 270K branch target table entries. It also features a private L2 cache that can scale up to 32MB and a clock speed of over 5GHz. It has a total of 22 billion transistors on 19 miles of wire across 17 metal layers.
Design
The z chip is an extension and enhancement of the Intel 8080 microprocessor. It was widely used in home computers, musical equipment, and coin-operated arcade games during the 1970s and 1980s. It is a software-compatible microprocessor with a 16 MB address space and integrated peripherals. It has a high degree of compatibility with the original 8080 and is available in many different configurations.
The new IBM Z processor, dubbed Telum, features an on-chip AI accelerator designed to support real-time inferencing. This allows clients to gain insights from their data while it’s being processed, including preventing credit card fraud during transactions.
The processor also offers significant innovations in security, such as transparent encryption of main memory. This feature protects against the threat of future quantum computing inventions, which could crack existing algorithms and render encrypted data useless. The chip also supports Hyper Protected Virtual Machines and trusted execution environments, making it an excellent choice for protecting critical data.
Performance
The z chip is IBM’s latest mainframe processor. It features an on-chip AI accelerator that can reduce latency for high value workloads like fraud detection in real time. IBM also aims to increase the reliability of the system by including a new feature called memory resilience.
The chip contains eight processor cores with a deep super-scalar out-of-order instruction pipeline, clocked at over 5GHz. Each core is supported by a private level-2 cache of 32MB that interacts with the internal memory interconnection architecture. The CPUs have a 19 cycle load-use latency and offer more than 2GB of level-3 cache.
The z chip includes an integrated AI accelerator that provides more than 6 TFLOPs of compute capacity per processor. This allows every core to access the full accelerator to improve AI inference performance for real-time response-time sensitive workloads. The accelerator can be used to offload Db2 processing and other workloads from general mainframe central processors. This is an important advance in machine learning for the enterprise.