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High-end server chips breaking records
- From: Brian Warkoczeski
- Date: Mon Aug 31 15:38:35 2009
High-end server chips breaking records
by Peter Glaskowsky
www.cnet.com
August 31, 2009
How would you like a single-chip microprocessor with more than four
times the performance (on some applications) of Intel's best Core i7?
Then consider that up to 32 of these chips can be directly connected to
form a single server, achieving four times the built-in scalability of
Intel's next-generation Nehalem-EX processor.
That's IBM's widely anticipated Power7, which it described at last
week's Hot Chips conference. But if you're interested, you'd better be
prepared to spend a lot more than four times as much per chip. IBM isn't
talking about pricing, but large Power servers can cost more than
$10,000 per processor.
For the rest of the article, see:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13512_3-10321740-23.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0
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