IBM and Arm announce strategic collaboration on joint enterprise hardware

IBM and Arm announced a strategic collaboration to build hardware that combines both companies' chip architectures for enterprise AI and data-heavy workloads. Early work focuses on running Arm applications inside IBM's enterprise platforms through virtualization, with requirements for high availability, security and local data sovereignty. The companies also plan shared technology layers across platforms.

• Joint hardware combining Arm and IBM chip architectures
• Arm applications to run inside IBM enterprise platforms via virtualization
• Design requirements: high availability, security and data sovereignty