IBM has carved out a renegade path for the upcoming Power6 processor, opting to crank the chip's GHz much higher while rivals shy away from major clock speed boosts with their products. The Power6 chip will run between 4GHz and 5GHz and has been shown to hum away at 6GHz in the lab. IBM reckons that some process technology breakthroughs have allowed it to kick GHz higher while still keeping heat and power consumption issues under control. All told, IBM claims that Power6 will be twice as fast as competing server processors from Intel, AMD and Sun.
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Member since:2005-11-06
>> They opened a 1000-engineer facility to cater to Apple's needs
> Yeah, you're going to have to provide a citation for that one.
Had you quoted the entire sentence, you would have quoted said source: Macworld 2006. OTOH, I don't think they said 1000-engineer, if I recall correctly they said 1000 people from Intel working with Apple's engineers, which is obviously not quite the same. 
That being said... the Power6 is/will be a server CPU, so it wouldn't have made the switch any less desirable, particularly due to the timelines involved.
Edited 2006-02-08 06:46
Member since:2005-10-09
Actually, I didn't quote anything (concerning that post). Hence no quote marks, no italics, etc. Regalrdless of it being engineers or "people" (quotations for those who need them), you are absolutely correct. IBM only makes money from it's hardware division in large scale/mainframe applications. This is in agreement with my previous post. You post simply agrees with those above you (and on slashdot.)
Cheers
[Edited for clarity about quotations]
Edited 2006-02-08 07:27
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2006-01-01
They opened a 1000-engineer facility to cater to Apple's needs
Yeah, you're going to have to provide a citation for that one.