IBM Unveils 4-5GHz CPU

**r2k** · 02-08-2006, 12:36 PM

Bucking a trend in the chip industry, IBM Corp. said Tuesday its upcoming Power6 microprocessor for servers will run at unprecedented speeds while keeping a lid on power requirements and heat.

For years, chip makers have improved computer performance by shrinking the size of transistors, squeezing more of them into smaller spaces and ratcheting up the speed at which they process instructions. But recently the benefits have diminished as the chips' power requirements and temperatures have risen.

To get around the problem, the industry has resorted to building two or more computing engines known as "cores" on a single chip and throttling back the clock speed to prevent a silicon meltdown. As a result, performance does increase — but it does not double, even with two computing cores.

View full story: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11215001/

**Einhanderkiller** · 02-08-2006, 03:22 PM

G6....

Wow... 4-5 GHz on a PowerPC.

~2 GHz was fast for a G5 -- think of how fast a G6 would be at 5 GHz!

Tong-Pak-Fu · 02-08-2006, 03:57 PM

Well it wouldn't really suprise me at this time. Due to this time around new and better stuff come out =].

sylv3rblade · 02-08-2006, 06:09 PM

5 Ghz. hmm... I wonder what'll be the benchmark scores on a machine with that monster onboard

Lizh0up · 02-09-2006, 12:03 AM

5.ghz wow......

Poent · 02-09-2006, 02:36 PM

Thats insainly fast. without reading the full article... I presume that it will generate imense heat, but hey. who couldn't use and extra hair dryer?

gameuser · 02-12-2006, 01:43 PM

I have a 4.17GHz P4 and it's aircooled, so 5GHz isn't too far off...

Overclockers have been able to get 7GHz out of a P4 with liquid nitrogen refridgerative cooling.

sylv3rblade · 02-12-2006, 02:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gameuser

Overclockers have been able to get 7GHz out of a P4 with liquid nitrogen refridgerative cooling.

Liqui- what? >.< wow! that's below 0? How in the world does the chip stand that without giving into moisture? Vaccuum?

White-Hat` · 02-12-2006, 02:43 PM

Quote:

I have a 4.17GHz P4 and it's aircooled, so 5GHz isn't too far off...

Overclockers have been able to get 7GHz out of a P4 with liquid nitrogen refridgerative cooling.

Yeah, we all saw that post I think.

I knew this day would come for a long time now.. I suspect a major change in architecture for computer chips everywhere in the next 10 years.

jbox14 · 02-12-2006, 02:45 PM

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