AI Technology Foundations
The real, IBM-confirmed AI silicon and interconnect technologies already shipping in Power11 or stated by IBM as continuing into future Power generations -- the foundations Power 12 is expected to build on.
IBM Telum II Processor
IBM's mainframe-class processor with a native, on-chip AI accelerator delivering 24 trillion operations per second -- four times the AI throughput of the original Telum chip.
IBM Spyre Accelerator
IBM's PCIe-based AI accelerator card, built for on-premises generative and traditional AI inference, with confirmed Power11 compatibility arriving December 2025.
IBM AIU Chip Family
IBM Research's family of purpose-built AI accelerator chips, the research lineage feeding IBM's production AI silicon strategy across mainframe, Power, and cloud.
Open Memory Interface (OMI)
IBM's proprietary memory interconnect, replacing direct DDR signaling with a high-speed serial protocol that already powers Power10 and Power11's DDR5 DDIMM memory.
OpenPOWER Foundation
The IBM-founded, now community-governed foundation that opened the Power ISA to royalty-free licensing, and the institutional structure that any Power12 architecture change has to work within.