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IBMs eight-core Power7 chip to clock in at 4.0GHz | The Register

WayneSmallman rated 3 months ago
From the page: "IBM looks set to join the seriously multi-core set with the Power7 chip. Internal documents seen by The Register show Power7 with eight cores per processor and also some very, very large IBM boxes based on the chip."

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Maria-Sverdlova rated 3 months ago
Damn my mac is not that fast.. :) They always make us upgrade the hardware
Supriyasharma rated 3 months ago
From the page: "IBM looks set to join the seriously multi-core set with the Power7 chip. Internal documents seen by The Register show Power7 with eight cores per processor and also some very, very large IBM boxes based on the chip."
WayneSmallman rated 3 months ago
From the page: "IBM looks set to join the seriously multi-core set with the Power7 chip. Internal documents seen by The Register show Power7 with eight cores per processor and also some very, very large IBM boxes based on the chip."
dot2kode rated 3 months ago
In response to "do you really need that much?" Even if nothing is going to use that much power for a while its there when software catch's up, by The way computer technology go's it's not going to be long. =)
corwin155 rated 3 months ago
woot 8cores :D but do desktops really need that many ?
LeonardoDaVinci rated 3 months ago
Holy Mother of...That's some SERIOUS computing power!
TheHorde rated 3 months ago
how many frames per second in doom 2?
GeekAlerts rated 3 months ago
From the page: "IBM looks set to join the seriously multi-core set with the Power7 chip. Internal documents seen by The Register show Power7 with eight cores per processor and also some very, very large IBM boxes based on the chip."