IBM releases new server that uses AI chip developed in Albany – Times Union

ALBANY - IBM has released its newest mainframe computer server - the z16 - that uses artificial intelligence and chips developed in Albany that protect businesses and consumers from hackers even before a transaction goes through.

IBM is known for producing the world's most powerful mainframe computers - known as the z Series - and the company releases new versions every few years as its chip technology evolves.

IBM no longer makes its own chips after selling off its factories in East Fishkill and Vermont nearly a decade ago to GlobalFoundries.

Today, IBM makes chips in partnership with South Korea's Samsung, with much of the research and development taking place at Albany Nanotech, the state's computer chip research lab that has IBM and others as tenants.

IBM announced a major breakthrough last year at Albany Nanotech on what it calls its Telum chip that works to boost the efforts of artificial intelligence, or AI, software to scan financial transactions for fraud - before the transactions are completed.

The new Telum chips are being used in IBM's new z16 servers, which means the new AI chips are finally being used commercially. IBM's mainframes are used in 70 percent of global financial transactions, in terms of monetary value.

IBM says its new technology is so good that it even is "quantum safe" meaning that data used in transactions can't, in theory, be stolen in the future by quantum computers that in theory are more powerful than traditional computers, although that claim was made by a third-party analyst.

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