IBM has announced the general availability of the Spyre AI accelerator.

Sypre will be available for IBM z17 and LinuxONE 5 systems from October 28, and in early December for Power11 servers.

First introduced in 2024, Spyre is a low-latency inferencing chip that supports generative and agentic AI use cases. Produced using 5nm technology, each accelerator is mounted on a 75MW PCIe card and features 32 compute cores and up to 1TB of memory.

Spyre can be deployed in clusters of up to 48 cards in an IBM Z or LinuxONE system, or 16 cards in an IBM Power system.

IBM previously said the chips will be manufactured by Samsung Foundry, IBM’s long-standing fabrication partner.

"One of our key priorities has been advancing infrastructure to meet the demands of new and emerging AI workloads," said Barry Baker, COO, IBM infrastructure & GM, IBM systems. "With the Spyre Accelerator, we're extending the capabilities of our systems to support multi-model AI – including generative and agentic AI. This innovation positions clients to scale their AI-enabled mission-critical workloads with uncompromising security, resilience, and efficiency, while unlocking the value of their enterprise data."

Mukesh Khare, GM of IBM semiconductors and VP of hybrid cloud, IBM, added: "We launched the IBM Research AI Hardware Center in 2019 with a mission to meet the rising computational demands of AI, even before the surge in LLMs and AI models we've recently seen. Now, amid increasing demand for advanced AI capabilities, we're proud to see the first chip from the Center enter commercialization, designed to deliver improved performance and productivity to IBM's mainframe and server clients."