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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. Re:Article title mixes up chip manufacturers by BigBir3d · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have to agree. To infer that the Power5 is the new G5 is a huge dis-service to the P5.

    The G-series chips have been nothing special, whereas the Power-series of chips are more than impressive. Look at all the Mac faithfull drooling over the idea of the 970, which is essentially a dumbed down version of the Power-4. That is the rumored "G5" chip. Although, most just call it the 970 now instead of a G-series. Thank god.