Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 17th Oct 2006 22:20 UTC
At the MicroProcessor Forum, Dr. Brad McCredie of IBM continued to tease out particulars regarding the POWER6. The presentation discussed a lot of general microarchitecture features, but did not reveal many specific details; a full revelation of the microarchitecture will likely have to wait till ISSCC, next February. However, from the details that were revealed, it is clear that the POWER6 inherited many characteristics from its predecessors, yet made substantial improvements in others.
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2006-08-09
One more reason to dislike close source: you become limited as to hardware architectures because your binary blobs won't work. It doesn't matter if POWER 6 costs $3.95, is ten times faster than a Core 2 Duo and it makes a mean cafe mocha with whip cream. Will it run nVidia or ATI's binary drivers? Nope. Will they port to it? Nope.
Is this trolling? Maybe. Didn't intend on doing so, but that is what this article called to my mind.