Design smarter products with fast, flexible custom microprocessor solutions from IBM. Built on the open, scalable Power Architecture base that helped bring Watson and generations of Blue Gene supercomputers to life, IBM custom processors exploit the performance and power advantages of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) process technology.
The inherent advantages of SOI technology make it a superior choice for performance-driven digital media, entertainment, networking and storage applications that demand exceptional, power-efficient processing capability. You will find IBM Power Architecture SOI-based microprocessor solutions already deployed across a range of consumer and IT products, from video game consoles to high-performance IBM systems.
With more than 20 years of experience and leadership in advanced microprocessor design IBM offers a full range of design and manufacturing services. Choose from single or multi-threaded microprocessor architectures targeted for manufacture in multiple technology nodes.
Interested in other microprocessor architectures? Companies teamed with IBM in an extended technology ecosystem can help deliver the right balance of performance, power and processing capability required to deliver differentiated smarter products.