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Technology giants IBM, Google, and seven others have joined hands to launch an open specification that can boost data center server performance by up to ten times, to take on Intel.

The creation of a new standard, called Open Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (OpenCAPI), will help corporations and cloud data center to speed up big data, machine learning, analytics, and various other emerging workloads, and is said to boost data center server performance by up to ten times.

Intel, the world’s largest chip maker, is known to protect its server technologies and has chosen to sit out of the new consortium. In the past also, it had stayed away from prominent open standards technology groups such as CCIX and Gen-Z.

In total these groups are backed by more than 30 companies under the idea that the data center of the future will require open standards.

IBM said that it first introduced the CAPI technology in 2014 with its POWER8 processor and saw that the industry embraced it as a potential game-changing technology for modern workloads such as artificial intelligence.

With the support of our OpenCAPI co-founders, we have created a new OpenCAPI specification that tremendously improves performance over our prior specification and IBM will be among the first to implement it with our POWER9 products expected in 2017.