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IBM's Power5+ Chip Boosts Top-end Unix Servers
News IBM has brought the Power5+ processor to its top-end Unix servers, completing the transition and boosting performance during a period of rapid change in the server market. The company's 16-processor System p5-590 and 32-processor p5-595 will ship...
[July 25, 2006, 10:30]
IBM System P5 Quad-Core Module Based On POWER5+ Technology: Technical Overview And Introduction
White Papers The dual core POWER5 chip and the dual core POWER5+ chip are packaged with the L3 cache chip into a cost-effective DCM package. The Quad-Core Module (QCM) is based on the well-known POWER5 Dual-Core Module (DCM) technology.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
IBM Furthers Multithreading Revolution
News IBM will bring multithreading -- a technology that lets one processor act like two or more -- to its Power5 server chip, the company said on Tuesday, as a revolution in microprocessor design continues.
[August 20, 2003, 9:55]
IBM Conserves Power With New Chip
News IBM's upcoming Power5 will include new features to curtail the chip's consumption of electrical current, the company said on Tuesday. The Dynamic Power Management technology can execute "50 percent more instructions using same amount of energy...
[October 15, 2003, 8:40]
IBM Challenges Sun And HP With Power6
News To help with performance, the Power6 chip has a total cache size of 8MB per chip, four times large than the Power5 chip, the company said. IBM today launched its Power6 processor, which the company said represented a new challenge to Sun and HP and...
[May 21, 2007, 17:41]
IBM Plots New Power Server Chips
News IBM gets the simultaneous multithreading abilities not through new circuitry but through a different use of existing "execution units," the part of the chip responsible for digesting and executing instructions.
[April 26, 2002, 9:06]
IBM Muddies Dual-core Pricing Waters
News And while the dual-core processors from Intel and AMD are coming out now, IBM's dual-core Power5 is a third-generation chip that has been out for a few years. Chip manufacturers endorse the idea that multicore processors are just the latest advance...
[April 22, 2005, 9:10]
IBM Seeks To Make Virtualisation 'ubiquitous'
News The next-generation chip will have technology that lets it run multiple operating systems simultaneously, said Karl Freund, vice-president of IBM eServer pSeries. IBM also uses the chip in its thin JS20 blade servers.
[December 22, 2004, 8:30]
HP Shuffles Server Chips
News Hewlett-Packard announced on Monday the release of new servers that use Intel's Itanium processor and HP's own PA-8800, which is the second-to-last chip in the company's Precision Architecture lineage.
[February 10, 2004, 10:45]
UltraSparc's Future Laid Bare
News They're going to get a huge performance boost from the on-chip cache," said Insight 64 analyst Nathan Brookwood. The initial clock speed of the dual-core chip is expected to be 1.5GHz, sources said - two speed grades slower than the 1.8GHz promised...
[September 15, 2005, 10:05]
IBM Plans Top-end 'Armada' Unix Server
News Simultaneous multithreading is related to Intel's hyper-threading, but while Intel says current hyper-threading gives a chip a modest boost of 20 percent or so, IBM expects simultaneous multithreading will let a single chip do the work of two...
[February 10, 2003, 11:55]
Big Blue To Let Squadron Fly At Sun And HP
News HP is betting that its servers with Intel's Itanium processors -- in particular, the dual-core "Montecito" chip scheduled to arrive in 2005 -- will beat out IBM's. The new servers are the biggest iron in IBM's "Squadron" family of servers using the...
[October 15, 2004, 9:20]
Power5 To Add Brawn To Servers
News IBM has fired up a computer running IBM's forthcoming Power5 processor, a top IBM executive said on Monday, predicting that systems with the new chip will have four times the performance than those using the current Power4.
[February 18, 2003, 9:21]
IBM Readies Power6 Blades For Next Year
News Beginning with its Power6 dual-core chip, IBM will build its high-end Power processors into blade servers for the first time in 2007, marking a significant expansion of blade abilities. A dual-core PowerPC 970 is available, but the chip line has...
[December 7, 2006, 11:17]
IBM Speeds Up Low-end Unix Server
News IBM's Power4+ processor debuted in the eight-processor p650 released in November, and IBM plans to move the faster chip to its other Unix servers in coming months. For a single-processor p630 with 2GB of memory, the price increases from $17,627 to...
[February 24, 2003, 5:54]
IBM Puts Power5 In Low-cost Unix Server
News The new machine uses a chip with one or two processing engines and accommodates as much as 32GB of memory, IBM said. IBM on Tuesday announced its least expensive Unix server to date with its new Power5 processor, the p5-510.
[February 9, 2005, 8:40]
IBM Gives Power5 Servers Dual-core Boost
News Today, each p5-575 ships with eight Power5 chips, but each chip has only one of its two cores activated. IBM will boost the processing power of its p5-575 server, a machine geared for high-performance technical computing tasks, the company plans to...
[June 20, 2005, 9:25]
Big Blue Finishes Power5 Line
News Those two machines, which also include the Power5 -- IBM's latest high-end server processor that packs two processor cores into one chip -- came out in May. Meanwhile, Hewlett-Packard continues to offer a range of servers based on its own PA-RISC...
[August 17, 2004, 9:15]
IBM Prepares Second Phase Of Power5
News They're built on a manufacturing process that permits chip with features 130 nanometres (billionths of a metre) wide, though a coming Power5+ version will be built with a 90-nanometre process that should allow smaller, faster and cooler chips.
[July 5, 2004, 9:20]
IBM Goes After Sun With New Low-end Systems
News According to IBM, the main improvements in the performance of the Power5+ chip come from its smaller format. IBM has revamped its entry-level Unix servers with new processors and an Integrated Virtualisation Manager aimed at the SME market, and...
[October 4, 2005, 5:01]
