The zEnterprise EC12 features a number of interesting improvements including the ability to use analytics to automatically improve system health and performance, bolstered and features that let the system save electricity. IBM noted that the system improvements represent over $1 billion in IBM research and development efforts.

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Systemwise, the EC12 features a 5.5-GHz, six-core processor, 101 cores (vs. 80 on the current z196), 161 capacity settings (vs. 125 on z196), 3Tb of memory and a radiator-based air-cooled system.