IBM teams with Xilinx to take on Intel with Power chips
IBM has partnered with chip maker Xilinx to expand the use of IBM Power processors in servers, taking on Intel for a bigger slice of the data center market.
It's one of several announcements IBM is making Monday around its Open Power effort, which it launched last year to breathe new life into Power by licensing the design for use by other companies.
Penguin Computing and Italy's E4 Computer Engineering are each building high-performance computers based on Power chips. And IBM said it worked with Nvidia to include its GPUs in IBM's Watson supercomputer, another Power-based system.
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