IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE

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Post by porridgeraisin » Wed, Aug 26, 2026, 8:32 PM UTC

IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE
newsroom.ibm.com

Re: IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE

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Post by crmd » Wed, Aug 26, 2026, 9:10 PM UTC

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.

Re: IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE

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Post by vablings » Wed, Aug 26, 2026, 9:16 PM UTC

crmd wrote: post #2

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.

There are already microcontrollers that have both arm + riscv support. This isn't something insane.

Re: IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE

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Post by christkv » Wed, Aug 26, 2026, 9:18 PM UTC

Is this like the Transmeta processors doing code translation in hardware?

Re: IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE

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Post by porridgeraisin » Wed, Aug 26, 2026, 9:20 PM UTC

crmd wrote: post #2

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.

Those takes are wrong with or without this particular processor.

Re: IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE

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Post by markus_zhang » Wed, Aug 26, 2026, 9:20 PM UTC

I was curious, is it conceptually similar to Data General Fountainhead project?

Re: IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE

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Post by pavlov » Wed, Aug 26, 2026, 9:21 PM UTC

crmd wrote: post #2

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.

More like mid-2000s, even with the least charitable interpretation.

There was a time when IBM dominated console CPUs for a massively successful generation (PS3, Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii).

Re: IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE

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Post by dmitrygr » Wed, Aug 26, 2026, 9:22 PM UTC

vablings wrote: post #3

crmd wrote: post #2

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.

There are already microcontrollers that have both arm + riscv support. This isn't something insane.

RP2350 has separate cores for that. This is one core that speaks both.

Re: IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE

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Post by petcat » Wed, Aug 26, 2026, 9:23 PM UTC

crmd wrote: post #2

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.

well that's nonsense. IBM does incredibly cool stuff.

https://research.ibm.com/blog

Re: IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE

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Post by LoganDark » Wed, Aug 26, 2026, 9:23 PM UTC

christkv wrote: post #4

Is this like the Transmeta processors doing code translation in hardware?

Transmeta did code translation with a software JIT. The hardware side had specific support for x86 semantics, similar to how Apple's M-series has supporting hardware for Rosetta's AOT translation, but neither executes x86 machine code directly.