http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/22/ibm-kicks-out-energy-efficient-4-7ghz-power6-processor/ Engadget Comments for IBM kicks out energy-efficient 4.7GHz POWER6 processor http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/22/ibm-kicks-out-energy-efficient-4-7ghz-power6-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/22/ibm-kicks-out-energy-efficient-4-7ghz-power6-processor/
Suppose its useless knowing as IBM chips arent for consumer use i.e. Windows or latest MacOS...]]>May 22nd 2007 7:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/22/ibm-kicks-out-energy-efficient-4-7ghz-power6-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/22/ibm-kicks-out-energy-efficient-4-7ghz-power6-processor/
Apple must be kicking themselves for going 100% Intel. ]]>May 22nd 2007 7:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/22/ibm-kicks-out-energy-efficient-4-7ghz-power6-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/22/ibm-kicks-out-energy-efficient-4-7ghz-power6-processor/
The PPC Chips Apple sued to use (e.g. the G5) were cut-down chips based on the POWER series. e.g. the G5 was a very cut down version of the POWER4.

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But isn't technology crafted from creating POWER will be trickled back down to IBM's PowerPC line? Similar to Intel's server technology being used later on in their consumer line.

What I am saying is that the any technological improvements on higher end products tends to make their way to its consumer line eventually.]]>May 22nd 2007 8:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/22/ibm-kicks-out-energy-efficient-4-7ghz-power6-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/22/ibm-kicks-out-energy-efficient-4-7ghz-power6-processor/May 22nd 2007 8:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/22/ibm-kicks-out-energy-efficient-4-7ghz-power6-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/22/ibm-kicks-out-energy-efficient-4-7ghz-power6-processor/
No wonder they shattered benchmarks, they're called POWER for a reason you know!

I do a lot of work on P series IBM kit, and We've a POWER6 system coming in for testing ^^, I can't wait.]]>May 22nd 2007 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/22/ibm-kicks-out-energy-efficient-4-7ghz-power6-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/22/ibm-kicks-out-energy-efficient-4-7ghz-power6-processor/IBM sure makes and supports some nice servers.

And the tech support is superb.]]>May 22nd 2007 10:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/22/ibm-kicks-out-energy-efficient-4-7ghz-power6-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/22/ibm-kicks-out-energy-efficient-4-7ghz-power6-processor/May 22nd 2007 9:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/22/ibm-kicks-out-energy-efficient-4-7ghz-power6-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/22/ibm-kicks-out-energy-efficient-4-7ghz-power6-processor/
You do realize there is a little bit more of a difference then endian ordering between the cpu's, like I dunno, a completely difference instruction set. If it was just endian encodian it'd be easy to translate machine code between one and the other on the fly.

Most likely power support will be dropped in osx2 or whatever the next major revision of the apple software is. Power isn't the first platform mac has been on, trust me they have no qualms destroying backwards compatibility.]]>May 23rd 2007 12:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/22/ibm-kicks-out-energy-efficient-4-7ghz-power6-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/22/ibm-kicks-out-energy-efficient-4-7ghz-power6-processor/]]>May 22nd 2007 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/22/ibm-kicks-out-energy-efficient-4-7ghz-power6-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/22/ibm-kicks-out-energy-efficient-4-7ghz-power6-processor/May 22nd 2007 5:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/22/ibm-kicks-out-energy-efficient-4-7ghz-power6-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/22/ibm-kicks-out-energy-efficient-4-7ghz-power6-processor/
I wonder what happened to IBM's plans to bring dual-cell processors into their server line. If anyone has more info on this please reply to my comment so I'll get an e-mail alert. I've gotten to touch a blade server but that's as close as I've gotten to anything above 15,000$ in computing hardware.

- Tony R.]]>May 24th 2007 3:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/22/ibm-kicks-out-energy-efficient-4-7ghz-power6-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/22/ibm-kicks-out-energy-efficient-4-7ghz-power6-processor/
- Tony R.]]>May 24th 2007 3:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/22/ibm-kicks-out-energy-efficient-4-7ghz-power6-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/22/ibm-kicks-out-energy-efficient-4-7ghz-power6-processor/
- Tony 'Need Sleep Badly' R.]]>May 24th 2007 3:16AM