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IBM Announces New AS/400s With SOI Chips
Chris Brewer writes: "IBM announced today a new line of AS/400e servers powered by the world's first production chips made of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) transistors and copper wiring. They say the addition of SOI adds a further 20-30% to performance beyond copper. They have a new high-end server that's 3.6x faster than before, entry level servers for running Domino (and presumably Linux), and all support XML. Further details can be found at IBM's AS/400 site. "
Suer, i await the time when all press releases simply say "New hardware, faster, more expensive, fancy new production process. Linux, XML, WAP, Internet, WWW, Open Source, multimedia, next generation. You want one."
It's sure to be a winner, it's got all the buzzwords.
Syllable : It's an Operating System
Whew, for a second there I thought IBM was trying to push a non-XML-compliant processor. Could have really hindered its adoption in enterprise computing.