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title: "IBM hopes its enhanced Power8 chip will take on Intel’s x86"
date: "2014-06-27"
categories:
- "press-releases"
- "industry-coverage"
- "blogs"
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BANGALORE, JUNE 27: IBM will use its huge India software developer base to work on its new Power8 chips to challenge Intel’s dominance.The world’s largest software company has launched its new Power8 chip architecture, an enhancement over its earlier version, to take on Intel’s Xeon chips or x86 widely used in data centres and server computers worldwide.