Craig Wolf of the Poughkeepsie Journal reports - “BM Corp. announced today that the chips inside its latest mainframe computer boast the fastest clock speed of any processors out there.

“The world’s fastest computer chip” is called a z196 and is what powers the zEnterprise mainframe computers that IBM will begin shipping out of the Poughkeepsie plant Sept. 10.

Making large computers and microchips is IBM’s main business in Dutchess County, where it employs several thousand. The health of the mainframe business is thus a key for the local economy.”

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