The company will add the FPGA chip they developed for multiple servers to increase application performance. IBM is building the computer CPU is combined with the accelerator dedicated to diversifying its servers and target the specific job, a leader of IBM said. The server CPU based on the general design can be good for certain applications, but IBM wants more of the development process itself and the dedicated circuit to speed up some work that he Jai Menon, director of group technology and technology systems of IBM, said in an interview.

The company will continue to offer servers with commodity processors (CPUs) x86, but they will also offer more enhanced server configurations and devices are optimized for specific applications such as medical , cloud computing and transaction processing. IBM is developing several new chips, circuit reprogramming is to be able to offload tasks from the CPU, Mr Menon said. Last month 2 / 2010, IBM announced PowerEN chips, can be used as a multi-processor or a co-processor. This chip will be built in the server or made on the card can be plugged into PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect).

IBM is also focusing more on FPGA (field-programmable gate array) circuits that can help perform specific tasks faster than the CPU. FPGA companies have made the handling of XML on the server. The FPGA can be reprogrammed to reduce special needs chips. also known as ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) for specific tasks, Mr. Menon said. The ASIC is not flexible, time and money to build.