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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2005-07-10
It is a more efficient design. PowerPC powers a significant number of embedded devices (games consoles being a biggy). Which, if I might say, work a lot more reliably than the average PC these days it seems. IBM handles the high end with Power 5 and Power 6. Freescale (nee Motorola Semiconductor) handles the embedded market. Just since PowerPC doesn't keep up with the Joneses (ie, AMD and Intel) doesn't mean it's a bad chip, it just means more astute people use it for what they need it to do.