IBM has now declared the commencement of its flagship series microprocessors POWER7. The producer thinks that these innovative CPUs are anxious that the Corporation will produce Intel family of processors in general as well as Xeon in particular.

Processors POWER7 which is being enclosed by eight cores, but all core are able of controlling up to four independent streams, i.e., a total processor includes almost 32 virtual computing kernel. Besides, the innovative processors use several design features of the CPU Cell, used in several supercomputers.

The new processors will be available in three basic versions. High-performance processor IBM Power 780 provides up to 64 cores, processor IBM Power 770 also provides up to 64 cores, and processor IBM Power 755 has "only" 32 virtual computing kernel.