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Not Your Momma’s Core - IBM Power 7 Chip
By John | July 14, 2008
The Register reports that IBM will ship a Power7 chip that clocks at 4.0GHz in 2010. Here is a list of some of the goodies…
- Eight-cores arranged in dual-chip module
- 16-cores per module
- 32 gigaflops per core
- 256 gigaflops per chip
- Four dual-chip modules per 2U (16 * 4)
- 2U unit will have 64 cores, 128GB of memory, and 2 teraflops
- One unit will support 1,024 cores, 32 teraflops, and 2TB of memory
Topics: ibm |
July 14th, 2008 at 9:25 am
Can’t wait for the Playstation 4 with one of those babies in it