Tuesday, February 07, 2006
For IBM, Speed Rules
Big Blue dropped a bombshell on the industry on Feb. 7 with an announcement at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco that the new Power 6 processor, when released in mid-2007, will become the reigning speed champ, at top clock speeds of 4 gigahertz to 5 GHz. That's about double the performance of anything now on the market.
