Review the specifications for the latest Telum II chip if you need a hint. 5.5ghz base clock.

If you absolutely need to scale something vertically, IBM Z is the final stop on the line.

X86 is great at hosting an entire farm of applications. You would never want to install salesforce or gitlab on a mainframe. That would completely defeat its purpose. If you've never encountered an appropriate workload, IBM might never make intuitive sense.

Also, the roadmap:

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-08-24-ibm-unveils-next-generat...

Ironically one of the smaller places I've worked at tried to use an IBM product once - I'm still not clear on what it was meant to do or how it was better than any cheaper alternative, so I assume someone in leadership was fooled by a very impressive pitch.

Lots of work went into integration and it never went live.

> I have no idea what IBM does

For one thing, amongst many, IBM mainframes process 70% of global transactions on a value basis