*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: nevermind about hurting xserve sales--I just noticed the price tag on IBM's machine.
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.