Last month IBM [1]announced the z17 mainframe powered by Telum II processors and today they announced the IBM LinuxONE Emperor 5 servers.

IBM LinuxONE Emperor 5 is the latest in their family of s390x-based servers focused on enterprise Linux server applications.

IBM LinuxONE Emperor 5 makes use of the new Telum II processors and thus the built-in AI acceleration is one of their big talking points with this new generation of servers. The IBM Spyre PCIe accelerator cards will also be available beginning in Q4 to further bolster the AI capabilities of LinuxONE 5. Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Enterprise Linux, and Ubuntu Linux are among the Linux distributions being certified for the IBM LinuxONE Emperor 5. The tech specs on the new LinuxONE 5 servers has so far been light on details in the now-public pages.

Those with a big budget and wanting to learn more about the IBM LinuxONE Emperor 5 can do so via [2]the news release and [3]IBM product page .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/IBM-z17-Telum-2-Announced

[2] https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/tina-tarquinio1/2025/05/06/the-next-generation-of-ibm-linuxone

[3] https://www.ibm.com/products/linuxone-5