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
What I meant was that that you can't just recompile software for PPC and run the thing on a new architecture as you don't have the code to recompile. We're stuck on x86 because of the need to run programs which were only compiled on the one platform. With the the code, then it could be ported to any newer, better architecture without too much of a fuss.
I could have posted the same thing if the article was about Sun's GPLed CPU design. It wasn't meant to be about the openness (or not) of the hardware itself.
Like I said, it may have been a troll post, but that's what came to mind upon reading it.