IBM boasts new Power11 chips are stingy on power usage

In case you'd forgotten, IBM is still blazing its own trail with regard to silicon. And in terms of speeds and feeds, Big Blue's latest crop of Power chips boasts up to 55 percent faster cores than its Power9 chips.

As impressive as that Power11 stat might sound, remember that Power9 made its debut in 2017. That, you may recall, was the generation of CPUs that powered the Department of Energy's Summit and Sierra supercomputers.

However, these chips aren't necessarily aimed at supercomputers, and this is reflected in core count across the lineup. While AMD and Intel are pushing core counts to 192 or more, IBM's Power11 tops out at 30 cores per socket. From what we gather, this is achieved using two 15-core dies that share a package, as was the case with Power10.

Having said that, you might be fooled into believing it ...