Thread: IBM Power7 processor unveiled

IBM freshly declares a latest processor, dubbed as the Power7. The most recent IBM chip is an 8-core processor, intended for utilize in high-end supercomputer systems. The 8-core Power7 processor features 1.2billion transistors as well as boasts of 12 implementation units for each core, by 32 threads for each chip along with highly developed pre-fetching data as well as instruction sets. According to IBM, its Power7 get a performance level of 20,000 logical operations in flight.

The Power7 also offer support for scalability of up to 32 sockets, 32MB on chip eDRAM shared L3, dual DDR3 memory controllers, 100GB/s memory bandwidth for every chip (continuous), 360GB/s SMP bandwidth/chip with 256KB L2 for each core.