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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2005-06-30
Basically, x86 is garbage.
You know, people keep saying x86 is crap an PPC allows for cheaper/faster/more efficient design but it doesn't look like AMD or Intel are slowing down to listen.