IBM Plans Collaboration On Power Architecture

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday March 31, 2004 @12:05PM from the go-go-ibm-rangers dept.

TheInternet writes "According to CNET News, IBM has made a series of announcements regarding the opening-up of the Power chip architecture. The story lacks technical details, but apparently, IBM is going to divulge more information about Power/PowerPC, and expects collaboration from the industry on the future of the chip. Nick Donofrio is quoted as saying: 'We will free electronics manufacturers from the limitations of proprietary microprocessor architectures', and Red Hat and Sony are two companies listed as taking part. Power5 was also shown, as was the Blue Gene/L supercomputer, using 32 500MHz processors to achieve 128 gigaflops."

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128 gigaflops by Neil+Blender · 2004-03-31 12:14 · Score: 0, Offtopic

WoooHooo! So someone is finally going to try to unseat Microsoft for the most failures!
What About DB2 ? by tealover · 2004-03-31 12:48 · Score: 0, Offtopic

When they open up DB2, then they'll get my attention. Collaboration on processor design is not new at all.

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