Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 22nd May 2007 00:15 UTC
IBM finally took the wraps off its much anticipated Power6 microprocessor, which company executives said will double the clock speed of its current Power5 chip, without stretching the power envelope. The Power6 processor, unveiled at an event on May 21 in London, is a dual-core chip with a top clock speed of 4.7GHz, double the 2.3GHz of the Power5+ processors. The new chip also includes 8MB of L2 cache - four times as large as the current Power5 offering - and an internal bandwidth of 300GB per second. Ars' John 'Hannibal' Stokes obviously also has his say.
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2006-04-19
I still regret that Apple had to switch to Intel X86. I just like the idea of Apple computers running off of PowerPC chips more, if only to be different. Too bad IBM was not at least a little more accommodating with its PowerPC offerings.
Imagine Steve Jobs at WWDC07:
"Oh, and one more thing. Introducing the new 4.7Ghz, dual-core, PowerPC Power Mac. The new world's most powerful personal super-computer!
Now, that one would be worth attending!
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