Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 12250 from 2003/5/22
From: Germany
> Looks like they're finally talking about POWER8. Absolute best of a chip.
> 12 cores, 8 threads each.
> 230GB / Sec bandwidth
> >200MB Cache
> 650 sqmm!
Nice. Does POWER8 feature
VSX or has this just been a short episode starting and ending with POWER7? Besides, I'm not sure what to think of IBM's idea to go backwards in time and turn the memory controller into a
separate chip again.
Anyway, first POWER8-based systems are supposed to ship mid-2014, and IBM "
has been designing the Power9 processor for quite a while already".