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IBM dual-ISA processor combines Arm and z instructions in one core

IBM presented an 11-core, 2nm mainframe processor that can switch between AArch64 and z/Architecture, plus a higher-bandwidth AI accelerator.

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IBM dual-ISA processor combines Arm and z instructions in one core
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