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IBM Unveils Fastest Microprocessor Ever

Posted by samzenpus on from the greased-lightning dept.

adeelarshad82 writes "IBM revealed details of its 5.2-GHz chip, the fastest microprocessor ever announced. Costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, IBM described the z196, which will power its Z-series of mainframes. The z196 contains 1.4 billion transistors on a chip measuring 512 square millimeters fabricated on 45-nm PD SOI technology. It contains a 64KB L1 instruction cache, a 128KB L1 data cache, a 1.5MB private L2 cache per core, plus a pair of co-processors used for cryptographic operations. IBM is set to ship the chip in September."

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  1. Required by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    But will it run ... a Beowolf cluster of ...

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  2. Great news for Mac OS X users! by squiggleslash · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can't wait to get a PowerMac G6 with this CPU, in your face Dell users with your commodity Intel-based desi... oh, wait.

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    1. Re:Great news for Mac OS X users! by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Funny

      The PowerMac G6 would be pretty impressive. The PowerBook G6 manual would include the following phrase:

      "Please note: The revolutionary new MagsafePro 3-Phase/480 power connector is not backwards compatible with the Magsafe connectors of prior, non-containerized Mac Portables."