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New info on IBM's Power5 chip (G5's)

Posted by chrisd on from the z-series-are-cool dept.

phreemind writes "There's some news out today on IBM's Power5, which should make an appearance next year. Interestingly, from the sound of this article, they've put a lot of work into power consumption on this processor so that it can go in anything from blades to big iron. This may preclude the need for a specialized low-heat/power version, such as the 970, for anything other than laptops. Oh, yeah, and they hope to use it to wipe Itanium off the map. Check out the article at InfoWorld."

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  1. Now that's the spirit! by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 4, Funny

    The [IBM] xSeries team has an Itanium box, and we are out to make sure Itanium doesn't survive ... the pSeries team hopes to relegate Itanium to a niche in high performance computing or better yet exterminate the processor altogether.

    Wow, it's great to see some real red-blooded competitive engineers again. This is how good stuff gets done.

    A couple years ago they would have been squashed by the PR deparment for casting ill light on a potential relationship with a potential business partner.

    Maybe there is hope for IBM afterall.

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    1. Re:Now that's the spirit! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I don't think itanium will be dead. No, I'm sure once IBM does away with their xSeries division, itanium will conveniently find its way into Lexmark printers.