bbloke
Registered
IBM has announced the POWER6 chip, running at 4.7 GHz, will be launched next month. Ars technica has an article about the launch, and states that the POWER6 chip has double the performance of the POWER5+ chip.
The details are:
On some sites, people have questioned whether Apple made the right move, switching to Intel, but I think the issue is much bigger than clock speeds alone.
The details are:
ars technica said:
- Top frequency of 4.7GHz
- >790 million transistors
- 341mm2 die size
- 65nm SOI process with ten layers of copper interconnect and a low-k dielectric on the first eight levels
- Dual-core
- Two-way simultaneous multithreading (SMT) on each core
- Two memory controllers
- Manufactured at IBM's 300mm semiconductor fab at East Fishkill, NY
On some sites, people have questioned whether Apple made the right move, switching to Intel, but I think the issue is much bigger than clock speeds alone.