Broader data type support

• 128-bit IEEE 754 Quad-Precision Float – Full width quad-precision for financial and security applications
• Expanded BCD and 128b Decimal Integer – For database and native analytics
• Half-Precision Float Conversion – Optimized for accelerator bandwidth and data exchange

Support Emerging Algorithms

Enhanced Arithmetic and SIMD

Random Number Generation Instruction

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Accelerate Emerging Workloads

• Memory Atomics – For high scale data-centric applications
• Hardware Assisted Garbage Collection – Optimize response time of interpretive languages

Cloud Optimization

• Enhanced Translation Architecture – Optimized for Linux
• New Interrupt Architecture – Automated partition routing for extreme virtualization
• Enhanced Accelerator Virtualization
• Hardware Enforced Trusted Execution

Energy & Frequency Management

• POWER9 Workload Optimized Frequency – Manage energy between threads and cores with reduced wakeup latency

(Source: https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/652102/Documents/POWER9-Features-and-Specifications.pdf?t=1497275206540, page 12)