IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE
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August 26, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (7 comments)
crmd
I was reading HN comments yesterday shitting on modern IBM for being a non tech consulting company that has not innovated since the mid nineties.
christkv
Is this like the Transmeta processors doing code translation in hardware?
markus_zhang
I was curious, is it conceptually similar to Data General Fountainhead project?
classichasclass
This feels like a baby step towards Arm being able to emulate z/Arch workloads, maybe with a bit of secret sauce for certain specific operations, which doesn't seem very much like IBM.
avhception
Huh. ARM instead of ppc64le?
34679
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SeifHashish
why is IBM moving forward that way