According to foreign media reports, IBM plans on Tuesday at a technology conference in silicon valley, release the latest details of Power9, Power9 is IBM's microprocessor series for the server. The company are ready to offer this product to other hardware firms, it is IBM's strategy shift recently.

At the same time, Advanced Micro Devices Inc (Advanced Micro Devices Inc., AMD, also known as: AMD semiconductors) is discussed in the same places called Zen processor of the internal working mechanism of science and technology, the company plans to use this technology for chip for servers and other hardware. Intel and advanced micro devices used are the design of the x86, a speed test of corporate activities show last week, advanced micro devices use Zen processor core chip speed than the Intel chips.

Advanced micro devices, a senior vice President and chief technology officer pepper masters (Mark Papermaster) said that the performance of the company behind rivals in the past, now this product really show the industry company has return to the high performance of the processor.

For most of the mobile phone chip technology licensing ARM Holdings PLC is discussed in the above Hot Chips high performance chip meeting the increasing technology for supercomputers and other scientific purposes. The British firm, estimates that there are 13 companies in the use of its servers and other data center hardware chip technology, which is expected to compete with Intel products.

International Data corp., International Data Corporation) estimates that in the last shipment of 9.81 million servers, 9.6 million use x86 chips, accounted for 98%. Mercury Research data show that in the second quarter, Intel x86 server chip shipments by 99.7%, AMD's share is only 0.3%.

IBM and other companies to a certain extent, is increasingly popular by the depth of learning motivation, the trend recently helped push server and server chip sales. Deep learning is artificial intelligence a branch of a larger area, can let the computer through the analysis of a large number of tasks such as data processing and language face recognition, rather than by specific programming to do it.

Power9 chips are expected to be listed in the second half of 2017 began, the chips have communication links, specifically designed and Nvidia (Nvidia Corp., NVDA) sales of the image processing unit for data exchange. Nvidia chip mainly with Intel processors used in deep learning applications.

Advanced micro devices are expected to be released in the second quarter of 2017 based on his Zen 32 nuclear technology service chip. The company's chief executive Su Zi feng (Lisa Su) estimated that the company has invested in development for nearly four years and hundreds of millions of dollars.