Today, IBM announced the latest in their line of mainframe computers, the z15. For starters, as you would probably expect, these are big and powerful machines capable of handling enormous workloads.

Three years ago, IBM announced Telum, a mainframe processor with an onboard AI accelerator shared across the eight cores. IBM announced the upcoming Telum II processor and AI accelerators at the ...

IBM's positioning of the z17 as an AI-native mainframe—not a relic of the past but a platform for future innovation—aligns with these emerging business needs.