IBM Power Systems

Power Systems is the name of IBM's Power Architecture-based server line. Before the Power Systems line was announced on April 2, 2008, IBM had two distinct Power-based lines: the System i running IBM i (formerly i5/OS and OS/400) - and the System p series running AIX or Linux. Systems based on POWER8 became available from IBM in June 2014.

IBM has been designing the future POWER9 processor for quite a while according to William Starke, a systems architect for the POWER8 processor.