The chip has been tested at clock speeds of 1 GHz in laboratories, according to the company. IBM gave a sneak preview of its new chip, the Power4, at the Hot Chips conference in Silicon Valley this week.
E-minister, Patricia Hewitt, has launched an online benchmarking service that lets small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) assess their competitive performance. The site - http://www.benchmarkindex.com - covers a range of competitiveness tests...
Its xSeries servers use Intel's Xeon and Itanium processors, its pSeries and iSeries use the Power4 processor and its predecessors, while its zSeries mainframe line uses a different IBM-designed processor.
The chip holds about a 15 per cent performance advantage over Intel's 3GHz Pentium 4 processor when the Pentium 4 is connected to a 533MHz bus, according to AMD benchmarks. Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday will release the Athlon XP 3200+ for...
Recent benchmarks highlighting the raw power of the new version of the 64-bit Itanium 2 processor, known as 'Madison', don't give the whole picture, according to IT analysts Meta Group. Madison, the third member of the Itanium chip family, debuted...
The p5-590, for example, will cost at least 25 per cent less than the current top-end pSeries 690, one source familiar with the product said. IBM entered the game in 2001 with its pSeries 690, which had 16 dual-core Power4 processors.