2005 Good Year for Power Architecture

An anonymous reader wrote to mention an IBM article looking back on what the piece calls the best year ever for the Power Architecture. From the article: "While IBM is considered by many to be an 800lb. gorilla, in the microelectronics space, it is actually very small -- last year IBM was way down at number 21 on the iSuppli list of the top 25 semiconductor suppliers worldwide. Now, that isn't necessarily a bad thing: for instance, it means that IBM Semiconductor solutions is small and nimble and competitive -- and this agility (coupled with the fact that we do get to share Research and some other resources with the parts of IBM that are 800lb. gorillas) has led some to predict that the IBM chips division will be named the fastest growing semiconductor supplier of 2005. In fact, there is a very good chance that IBM may regain the coveted #18 spot on iSuppli's list this year!"

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[SmallFurryCreature]

IBM is the cool company nowadays. They are hip and happening. Yes pigs are flying when International Business Machines has more fun articles then a home consumer company like MS.

Sun? Geez, the only thing they get in the news for is for licking MS ass. Hardly /. material perhaps you should find a MS fanboy website.

This is linux land greenhorn and IBM is our current pet of the week. I think it is very telling that it is IBM who is involved in all the next gen game consoles and not the likes of Intel or AMD. Both of whom should be really worried IF the cell lives up to Sony's dream and does turn the PS3 into the living room PC.

What I would like to know is how powerfull those IBM chips really are. How can a 360 have such power at such a low price (a fraction of what a similar Intel/AMD chip would cost).