quinta-feira, 2 de setembro de 2010

IBM Unveils Fastest Microprocessor Ever

URL: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/RfnZtoU8d4Q/story01.htm


adeelarshad82 writes "IBM revealed details of its 5.2-GHz chip, the fastest microprocessor ever announced. Costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, IBM described the z196, which will power its Z-series of mainframes. The z196 contains 1.4 billion transistors on a chip measuring 512 square millimeters fabricated on 45-nm PD SOI technology. It contains a 64KB L1 instruction cache, a 128KB L1 data cache, a 1.5MB private L2 cache per core, plus a pair of co-processors used for cryptographic operations. IBM is set to ship the chip in September."

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