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IBM Sells Off PowerPC Processors
News IBM on Tuesday sold three of its PowerPC processors in a licensing deal with Applied Microcircuits, a 25-year-old networking and storage chip company. Under the agreement, IBM will transfer its PowerPC 403, 405 and 440 processors to Applied...
[April 13, 2004, 16:55]
KCA DEUTAG Accelerates Its SAP Solutions With IBM POWER5 Processors
White Papers The solution was to consolidate SAP software from 4 Fujitsu-Siemens servers to 2 IBM eserver p5 550 systems with POWER5 processors and create SAN around an IBM TotalStorage DS4300, implement IBM Tivoli Storage Manager 5.3 for automated backup and...
[November 14, 2005, 23:00]
Copper Supercharges Supercomputers
News IBM will unveil a new generation of supercomputers it says offers a major performance increase by using IBM Power3 processors with copper interconnect technology. Copper-based PowerPC processors manufactured by IBM are used, for example, in Apple...
[February 10, 2000, 11:02]
IBM 'Squadron' Ready For Action
News IBM has powered up a prototype of "Squadron" its coming high-end Unix server with 64 Power5 processors, an important step in Big Blue's plans to unify its four server lines. Versions of IBM's WebSphere and DB2 for Linux on Power processors are in...
[March 19, 2003, 8:04]
IBM Strengthens Linux Investment
News IBM has put more muscle behind its effort to improve Linux for its Power family of processors, adding dozens of programmers to Big Blue's Linux Technology Centre with plans to hire more. We hadn't been doing enough to fully enable Linux" on Power...
[July 15, 2003, 7:51]
IBM To Release Low-end Linux Server
News OpenPower 710, which can be powered by up to two 64-bit 1.65GHz IBM POWER5 processors, was posted for sale on IBM's UK Web site late last week, but was later taken offline. IBM released OpenPower 720, which contains up to four processors, in...
[January 24, 2005, 12:55]
IBM Announces New Multi-Xeon Server
News IBM on Wednesday announced a new top end to its xSeries server family, a machine that accommodates as many as 32 of Intel's latest Xeon processors. First versions of the x460, with either four or eight processors, will be generally available from...
[June 2, 2005, 9:35]
IBM Touts Second Itanium
News IBM announced on Monday the launch of its second Itanium server, a more powerful machine that can accommodate as many as 16 of the high-end processors from Intel. As expected, IBM said its x455 systems will let customers stack up as many as four 7...
[November 11, 2003, 7:35]
IBM Reveals Dual-core Power Details
News IBM said it plans to offer the new processors in a variety of ways: in clusters of servers such as its Blue Gene/L super computer, for example, as well as in high-performance storage devices, single-board computers and networking products.
[July 11, 2005, 16:30]
Intel's First Dual-core CPU Benchmarked
Talkback Although Intel is preparing to ship the first dual-core processor chip running the x86 instruction set, IBM has been shipping dual-core PowerPC processors for about a year now. The IBM processors could certainly go into desktop systems and Apple...
[April 12, 2005, 1:36]
IBM Revs 2GHz PowerPC Chip
News IBM Microelectronics is counting on its research powerhouse to push it ahead of Motorola in the lucrative market for networking chips with PowerPC processors that will reach the 2GHz mark. While those speeds may pale in comparison to current Intel...
[May 11, 2001, 7:53]
IBM Set To Boost Chip Memory
News IBM on Wednesday plans to unveil a new way of putting memory on processors that it thinks will dramatically improve performance. Starting with its 45nm (nanometre) processors next year, IBM will use embedded DRAM (dynamic RAM) instead of SRAM...
[February 14, 2007, 8:06]
IBM Claims Server-speed Victory Over Intel
News An IBM Unix server using the company's own Power processors has beaten an Intel Itanium system in a widely watched server speed test, Big Blue announced on Tuesday, the opening day of an Intel processor conference.
[February 18, 2004, 9:45]
IBM Muddies Dual-core Pricing Waters
News IBM is a dualist when it comes to software licensing and dual-core processors. The same week that Intel and AMD introduced dual-core processors, IBM said that it will price its server software as if these x86 dual-core chips were a single processor.
[April 22, 2005, 9:10]
IBM Releases Opteron Blade Servers
News IBM has begun selling blade servers using Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processor, the second server model with the chip in a product line that places more emphasis on rival processors from Intel. For mainstream computing with x86 processors, IBM...
[June 16, 2005, 15:35]
MySQL Embraces IBM's Power
News MySQL has created a version of its popular open-source database software for Linux on IBM's Power processors, the company said on Tuesday. Linux is most widely used on "x86" processors such as Intel's Xeon and Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron, but...
[August 5, 2004, 8:45]
IBM Deals Focus On Servers, Services
News Sunnyvale, California-based MontaVista, for example, will expand its support for IBM's PowerPC processors, used in the embedded and networking markets. Although Apple Computer uses IBM PowerPC chips, the vast majority of these processors go into...
[January 23, 2002, 15:50]
IBM Plans Revamp Of Server Pricing
News New server technologies, such as multicore processors and virtualisation, have led IBM to begin radically revamping its server software pricing method. Starting on Tuesday, IBM will charge on the basis of "processor value units" rather than actual...
[July 25, 2006, 8:40]
IBM Plots New Power Server Chips
News IBM plans to endow its Power5 and Power6 processors an ability called "Fast Path" to take over tasks that software currently handles more slowly. The Power5 and Power6 processors, to be detailed at IBM's analyst conference in New York and expected...
[April 26, 2002, 9:06]
ZAAPs And ZIIPs: Increasing The Strategic Value Of System Z
White Papers With the addition of IBM System z application assist processors (zAAPs) and integrated information processors (zIIPs) to the portfolio of special-purpose IBM System z processors, the reinvention of the IBM mainframe continues.
[March 6, 2007, 23:00]
