# Hot Chips 2026: Interviewing IBM's Christian Zoellin & Christian Jacobi

DevFeed: [Hot Chips 2026: Interviewing IBM's Christian Zoellin & Christian Jacobi](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/hot-chips-2026-interviewing-ibm-s-christian-zoellin-christian-jacobi-13996.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://chipsandcheese.com/p/hot-chips-2026-interviewing-ibms>)

Author: George Cozma

Published: 2026-08-30T17:31:05Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Chips and Cheese](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/chips-and-cheese.md>)

Topics: [Arm](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/arm.md>), [ibm](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ibm.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>)

Tags: [2026](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/2026.md>), [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [architectures](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architectures.md>), [arm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/arm.md>), [core](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/core.md>), [decoding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/decoding.md>), [ibm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ibm.md>), [interviewing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/interviewing.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/systems.md>)

## AI overview

An interview with IBM engineers at Hot Chips 2026 discusses the company's next-generation z/Architecture processor, which supports both the z/Architecture and Arm instruction sets. The conversation covers its shared decode pipeline, separate instruction decoders, and handling of differing endianness in the load-store unit.

## Source excerpt

Hello you fine Internet folks,