> First solid information on POWER7 preceded its official release by 1.5 years. > Going by that, 1 year from now plus 1.5 more years would mean early 2014 > for POWER8 release. But as we know that POWER8 is scheduled for 2013 > (and rather early than late that year), solid information may be imminent ;-)
They list as a POWER8 feature among others something called "Accelerators". And what is the real surprise for me here, those "Accelerators" are listed for the POWER7+ as well.
Edit: Found a PDF where the POWER8's "Accelerators" became "Imbedded accelerators" (and also "Dynamic TurboCore" was added to the chip's features):