IBM Unveils Fastest Microprocessor Ever

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 1, 2010 @11:57PM 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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fastest first post ever? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-01 23:58 · Score: -1, Offtopic

we'll see about that!
Yeah, I read about this by MrHanky · 2010-09-02 00:01 · Score: -1, Offtopic

A week ago. Maybe Slashdot should upgrade to that IBM CPU.
1. Re:Yeah, I read about this by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-02 01:22 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  If I could mod you redundant, I would.
Dupes by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-02 00:13 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Hell, if you're going by that m Slashdot is consistently a whole 1-2 days faster than Slashdot lately.