IBM Intros Power5 Server
The new server, the eServer i5, is aimed at small and mid-sized businesses.
The eServer i5 systems are powered by IBM's next-generation POWER5 microprocessor, the most advanced 64-bit chip in the world. POWER5 features an impressive 276 million transistors per processor, and is manufactured with IBM's 0.13-micron copper wiring and SOI (Silicon-on-Insulator) technologies. In addition to providing communications acceleration and chip multiprocessing, POWER5 offers simultaneous multithreading (SMT), which transforms a single processor into two processors, essentially allowing the chip to run two applications at the same time and reducing the time it requires to complete a task.
The new server/Power5 will become available starting on June 11, 2004.
Early rumors had hinted that future PowerPC chips may be derived from the Power5 processor.
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IBM is a great company and I'm glad Apple has a good relationship with them.
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IBM is a great company and I'm glad Apple has a good relationship with them.
I just hope they don't become to Motorola-like. The latest news didn't sound too good. Let's hope these new processor will evolve (soon) to a desktop version for Apple. Imagine 3.5GHz processors with SMT...
Edit: Does anyone wonder why these chips are manufactured by 0.13-micron and SOI-technology and not 0.09 and SSOI?
I just hope they don't become to Motorola-like. The latest news didn't sound too good. Let's hope these new processor will evolve (soon) to a desktop version for Apple. Imagine 3.5GHz processors with SMT...
Edit: Does anyone wonder why these chips are manufactured by 0.13-micron and SOI-technology and not 0.09 and SSOI?
Imagine 3.5GHz processors with SMT...
i would imagine that this would be left out, in order to make the chip smaller, less complex and less expensive... i believe they did a similar thing with the power4/g5
(just thought I'd say it--you know SOMEONE had to!)
i would imagine that this would be left out, in order to make the chip smaller, less complex and less expensive... i believe they did a similar thing with the power4/g5
No - the Power4/PowerPC G5 (970) did not have SMT support at release. IBM may have planned earlier to include it, but decided to hold off until the Power5 to use SMT.
and i bet it will come next summer.
My Prediction for Summer of 2005 at WWDC
Dual 4.5 Ghz G5 Pro with SMT (equal to 4 virtual processors)
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