z17 Mainframes Give IBM Time To Ramp AI-Accelerated Power11 Systems

April 14, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan

We had been expecting for the Power11 processors and their new Power Systems servers to be announced sometime around the spring to early summer of this year and to start shipping in volume in the summer, maybe in June or July, with a nice sales bump in the second half of 2025. However, now the Power11 launch will be in the second half of the year, and IBM’s Systems group will be counting on a bump first from the System z17 mainframes that were launched last week.

This has happened before, and more than once, and it is a good …