IBM’s next-gen mainframe chip is the first to run Arm and Z workloads on the same cores
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IBM fusing Arm and Z on the same mainframe cores — with nanosecond switching — is a bet that heterogeneous workloads want shared, tightly coupled silicon rather than sidecar accelerators. If you run high-value transactional systems, this opens a path to modernizing around Arm ecosystems without abandoning mainframe reliability, but it also complicates your long-term portability story.
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