> Telum II and prior IBM mainframe chips handle server tasks like financial transactions, but curiously seem to prioritize single threaded performance. IBM was

> Telum II and prior IBM mainframe chips handle server tasks like financial transactions, but curiously seem to prioritize single threaded performance. IBM was doing SMT (aka Hyperthreading) for decades, long before x86 did. I can't get a number for Telum II, but the original Telum implemented 16-way SMT per core[0], so your 8 core Telum can do 128 threads. I expect similar from Telum II. [0] https://www.ibm.com/linuxone/telum https://www.ibm.com/linuxone/telum