Ibm power7

[Kal-EL]

HARDWARE, ENTERPRISE NEWS
IBM set to release first public information on POWER7 (http://www.overclockaholics.com/news/2009/8/21/ibm-set-to-release-first-public-information-on-power7.aspx)
This weekend, Sheraton Hotel in Palo Alto is hosting Hot Chips 21, high-level conference bringing details of new developments in the world of chips. IBM has some very interesting presentations ahead...


Full Article (http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2009/8/21/ibm-set-to-release-first-public-information-on-power7.aspx)

[Buckeye]

Power7 looks to be very interesting.

I am not sure how this would work out tho., lets say they have a chip ready to go right now, does Intel make it or IBM. Not sure if IBM makes there own CPU's ?

If these chips can just drop into a I7 socket then most likely it would be Intel making the chips.

Don't know... but these chips could be a major performance jump for us.

[Neuromancer]

I do not see anywhere that they are making desktop chips now. That would be cool though.

IBM chips have always been way more powerful than desktop chips but the lack of X86 instructions means they have to use the more powerful but less widespread, SPARC/RISC instructions.

Dunno about you, I like running Windows. HP UX on powerpc is freaking, really freaking, fast for a sub 100 MHz CPU, but doing anything in HP UX is like milking a bull.

I am sure that IBM will jsut continue making chips for industry and leave us pwners to overclocking our X86 setups.