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IBM launches world's fastest processor
Power 6 chip faster, greener and cooler
IBM has unveiled what it claims is the fastest processor in the world. The Power 6 runs at 4.7GHz, and has an 8MB L2 cache and 790 million transistors built on a 65nm scale.
Big Blue is calling the Power 6 its greenest chip as it uses the same amount of energy as the Power 5, but has twice the performance.
The Power 6 is twice as powerful as the entire Deep Blue supercomputing system that beat chess champion Gary Kasparov 10 years ago, and IBM claims that it is 2.3 times faster than its nearest competitor.
"The crisis in data centre management is not about performance; it is about energy and cooling. The amount spent on hardware itself is tiny compared to power and cooling costs. It is not possible for the industry to continue in this way."
The Power 6 uses a number of technical tricks to cut power consumption and heat build up.
These include shifting low-power processor functions into separate sections of the chip, rejigging others so that they can be performed at lower power levels and building parallel processing functions onto the silicon.
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Power 6 chip faster, greener and cooler
IBM has unveiled what it claims is the fastest processor in the world. The Power 6 runs at 4.7GHz, and has an 8MB L2 cache and 790 million transistors built on a 65nm scale.
Big Blue is calling the Power 6 its greenest chip as it uses the same amount of energy as the Power 5, but has twice the performance.
The Power 6 is twice as powerful as the entire Deep Blue supercomputing system that beat chess champion Gary Kasparov 10 years ago, and IBM claims that it is 2.3 times faster than its nearest competitor.
"The crisis in data centre management is not about performance; it is about energy and cooling. The amount spent on hardware itself is tiny compared to power and cooling costs. It is not possible for the industry to continue in this way."
The Power 6 uses a number of technical tricks to cut power consumption and heat build up.
These include shifting low-power processor functions into separate sections of the chip, rejigging others so that they can be performed at lower power levels and building parallel processing functions onto the silicon.
READ MORE
...and 4.7GHz is not Fast i Believe 
, and yes, certaily can run Vista / XP / MAC OS / Linux / SUN without with full performance 
