*CONFIRMED* IBM releases Power5
from Macrumors:
The eServer i5 systems are powered by IBM's next-generation POWER5 microprocessor, the most advanced 64-bit chip in the world. POWER5 features an impressive 276 million transistors per processor, and is manufactured with IBM's 0.13-micron copper wiring and SOI (Silicon-on-Insulator) technologies. In addition to providing communications acceleration and chip multiprocessing, POWER5 offers simultaneous multithreading (SMT), which transforms a single processor into two processors, essentially allowing the chip to run two applications at the same time and reducing the time it requires to complete a task
Interesting news!
WIll this hurt xServe G5 sales?
EDIT:
nevermind about hurting xserve sales--I just noticed the price tag on IBM's machine.
The eServer i5 systems are powered by IBM's next-generation POWER5 microprocessor, the most advanced 64-bit chip in the world. POWER5 features an impressive 276 million transistors per processor, and is manufactured with IBM's 0.13-micron copper wiring and SOI (Silicon-on-Insulator) technologies. In addition to providing communications acceleration and chip multiprocessing, POWER5 offers simultaneous multithreading (SMT), which transforms a single processor into two processors, essentially allowing the chip to run two applications at the same time and reducing the time it requires to complete a task
Interesting news!
WIll this hurt xServe G5 sales?
EDIT:
nevermind about hurting xserve sales--I just noticed the price tag on IBM's machine.
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Originally posted by ipodandimac
from Macrumors:
The eServer i5 systems are powered by IBM's next-generation POWER5 microprocessor, the most advanced 64-bit chip in the world. POWER5 features an impressive 276 million transistors per processor, and is manufactured with IBM's 0.13-micron copper wiring and SOI (Silicon-on-Insulator) technologies. In addition to providing communications acceleration and chip multiprocessing, POWER5 offers simultaneous multithreading (SMT), which transforms a single processor into two processors, essentially allowing the chip to run two applications at the same time and reducing the time it requires to complete a task
Interesting news!
WIll this hurt xServe G5 sales?
EDIT:
Apple's and IBM POWER5 servers are directed at two different markets..
So will these chips appear in the PowerMac rev b's? Or do you think they will?
Nope. I think its a safe bet to say that we will never see a power5 in an Apple computer.
What we might see is some trickle down version of the power5. In-fact I think THAT is a pretty safe bet.