Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 9th Apr 2008 21:51 UTC
"The rest of the server world can play with their piddling 2-3GHz chips. IBM, meanwhile, is prepared to deal in the 5GHz realm. The hardware maker has unveiled a Power6-based version of its highest-end Unix server - the Power 595. The box runs on 32 dual-core 5GHz Power6 processors, making it a true performance beast. This big box completes a protracted roll out of the Power6 chip across IBM's Unix server line."
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Member since:2007-07-31
I dont know why I'm bothering but the POWER architecture was the bigger brother of the POWERPC (PPC) architecture used by Apple.
Lets put this in a perspective you might comprehend... the wii and xbox 360 use modified PPC architecture... still wanting to bitch about apple now? The PS3 uses the cell architecture which was also worked on by IBM.
Laughing at apple for not switching away from PPC is like laughing at HP for investing in Itanium.
Both are big iron processors... the main difference is that POWER is still respected ... and well, Intels Itanium sunk like the Titanic.
Edited 2008-04-10 22:52 UTC
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2007-03-22
Boy now I want to see how mac sells those xserver blades... like 2x performance like 4 x performance.. Go IBM.. Only if u can make an x86 emulator on that it would make hte world a bettter place for me to run vista or xp.. Cos I like Playing BattleField 2 ad I dont want to be a rocket scientist to compile binaries to run it. .. I will say i am lazy cos i want to play not build rockets.. hehehe
And hey what is that ... Hmm i guess Apple can now wonder
Hey one more thing what ever is happening to the cell! or is this cell!????
Edited 2008-04-10 19:46 UTC