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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2005-07-06
And? What's your point?
It's true that x86 won the desktop and server CPU war, but it still doesn't make it a more eleguant ISA: it's still crap.
To make an analogy, you can make *any* object fly with engines powerful enough, but that doesn't make it eleguant as beautifully designed planes.