IBM Unveils Fastest Microprocessor Ever

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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Re:Yeah, I read about this

[TaoPhoenix]

Fark is consistently a whole 1-2 days faster than Slash-D lately. And their "Idle" section is better.

Re:Speed times Quantity?

[Anonymous Coward]

wow, 4-5 times faster per core you say?

I think moore's law just skipped a few decades with your analysis!!
Incredible how nobody else noticed this incredible output of technology.
(you fail)