IBM Unveils Fastest Microprocessor Ever 292
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."
Required (Score:4, Funny)
But will it run ... a Beowolf cluster of ...
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Re:Great news for Mac OS X users! (Score:5, Funny)
"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."
64KB L1 (Score:2, Funny)
That ought to be enough instruction cache for anybody.
No news here (not apple) (Score:1, Funny)
No news here. Everyone knows the only innovation going on in the big companies is in Apple nowadays. Move along...
Re:Speed times Quantity? (Score:1, Funny)
> I'd say they were after a bigger prize than, say, hardcore gamers ;-)
Yeah. They're after the *really fucking hardcore* gamers.
Re:fastest first post ever? (Score:3, Funny)
Wait, do I have it turned on or off right now?
Bad Golf? (Score:3, Funny)
Had a golf game ended differently, would we be seeing these in power macs?
Put that in your iPad (Score:3, Funny)
IBM also previously claimed the title of fastest microprocessor with the POWER6 chip, which ran at speeds of up to 4.6 to 4.7 GHz, and its own z10, a 2008 chip which ran at speeds of up to 4.4 GHz.
I seem to recall that one of the official reasons Apple gave for the switch from Power to Intel was that IBM couldn't/wouldn't deliver a fast enough processor.
Re:Speed times Quantity? (Score:3, Funny)
Not saying I'd recommend it, but if that's the measure that you want to use then I'd say a cheap clunker could probably beat the both of them*.
*Take the rest of the cash your would have spent buying either one and spend that on blowjobs.