Motherboard: Rev 1.5 IBM with Intel Chipset. This motherboard has been removed from a proprietary IBM tower, not sure which one.<BR><BR>Power supply: New<BR><BR>Was there a special connector on the ...

IBM has partnered with chip maker Xilinx to expand the use of IBM Power processors in servers, taking on Intel for a bigger slice of the data center market. It’s one of several announcements IBM is ...

I bought a motherboard & processor off the Agora recently. It was from an IBM server, but unbeknownst to me at the time, it has a custom front-panel connector. It is a single row of 8 (possibly 10 -- ...

A new crowdfunding project wants to build ATX motherboards compatible with IBM's Power8 CPU. Non-x86 chips are making something of a comeback this year -- could Intel's data center dominance be in ...

The very first systems that allow for GPUs to be hooked directly to CPUs using Nvidia’s NVLink high-speed interconnect are coming to market now that Big Blue is updating its Power Systems LC line of ...

In the era where just about everything from your smartphone to your car interacts with cloud-based applications ranging from e-mail to mapping, it’s easy to forget that there are many applications ...

The IBM PCjr was a computer only the marketing geniuses of a multi-billion dollar corporation could love. On the face of it, it seemed like a great idea – a machine for the home market, meant to ...

The POWER 8 CPU core is extremely wide, clocks quite high, and offers what seems to be unmatched single-threaded performance. In fact, if we look at performance results of a system packing four of the ...

IBM’s efforts to expand the use of its Power chips in hyperscale data centers just got a big shot in the arm from Google. The online giant is showing its first home-built server board based on IBM’s ...

IBM has taken the wraps off the first servers that are powered by its monstrously powerful Power8 CPUs. With more than 4 billion transistors, packed into a stupidly large 650-square-millimeter die ...

An effort to license IBM processor designs bears fruit as one of the most powerful computing companies on the Net shows its own server using Big Blue's Power8 chip. That could mean more competitive ...