With IBM POWER9, we're all riding the AI wave - IBM Systems Blog: In the Making

There's a big connection between my love for water sports and hardware design -- both involve observing waves and planning several moves ahead. Four years ago, when we started sketching the POWER9 chip from scratch, we saw an upsurge of modern workloads driven by artificial intelligence and massive data sets. We are now ready to ride this new tide of computing with POWER9. It is a transformational architecture and an evolutionary shift from the archaic ways of computing promoted by x86. POWER9 is loaded with industry-leading new technologies designed for AI to thrive.