The New POWER6 with twice the clock speed

[Frozen_Fallout]

Looks like IBM has made a new processor and its got twice the clock speed as the old Power5 and no one knows how they did it. This to me is really interesting.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061019-8034.html

 

[Frozen_Fallout]

You know I also wonder how much of this secret gets to help AMD since they trad tech?

 

[kmjohnso]

This is rather old news though, the Wiki has a bunch of info/links:

Power6 Wiki

It should a fabulous processor (for certain apps). They're are going to be late into the market though. And have to compete with 4-core x86 chips. and Suns 8core Niagra2.

 

[Frozen_Fallout]

Sorry Ars just posted this on the 19th and thanks for the link