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IBM boasts world’s fastest production chip
BIG BLUE IBM is claiming world record performance in its latest chip designed for its z-series processors, which it called the world's fastest computer microprocessor and a significant advance in mainframe computing.
In a Youtube video announcing the processor, Big Blue said that there is more to the promise of 5.2GHz speeds than bragging rights, and added that it would be well suited for those companies that manage large workloads or compute intensive work, such as number crunching financial firms and retailers, or that apply intelligence to systems.
Regardless of the applications though, the z196 processor is interesting, and not just because it has taken three years and $1.5 billion to develop.
Designed in Poughkeepsie, New York and built in IBM's own fab in Fishkill, New York, the z196 processor is a quad-core processor that contains 1.4 billion transistors on a 512mm^2 chip. IBM said that it was able to increase performance by placing dense embedded DRAM caches on the same chip as the high-speed microprocessor cores.
In order to attract the attention of the people of Guinness, IBM said that in one of its z-series enterprise systems the chip is able to run at a record-breaking 5.2GHz.
The IBM System z196 mainframe uses 96 of the chips and delivers more than 50 billion instructions per second processing capacity, 60 per cent more than its predecessor, the System z10, with roughly the same electrical power consumption. µ
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I'll always remember my grandfather saying, "I'd rather be a billionaire in England than America". These days I say, "...Europe rather than America".
So, if an American billionaire has their money in a Swiss bank account, dose that make them only a millionaire...
I'll always remember my grandfather saying, "I'd rather be a billionaire in England than America". These days I say, "...Europe rather than America".
So, if an American billionaire has their money in a Swiss bank account, dose that make them only a millionaire...
Actually blame the French, their mathematicians are credited with creating the terms and values in the 15th century, which is now referred to as the long system.
The United Kingdom uses the short scale and has done for decades, the long scale being depreciated to merely being a quaint bit of trivia useful for pub quizzes.
I had never heard of there being a 2nd definition of a Billion in 35 years in Electrical Engineering. Leave it to the Brits to be different. At least in EE, there is only one definition.
Remember that there are two different definitions of a billion.
One is a thousand million (10^9), the other is a million millon (10^12). That's one of the reasons why SI units are so useful ;)
Really Getting Tired of Name Robbee'.
RU dave?
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Certainly refreash of 116 Billion Transistors Isn't BAD. Add DS8000 for Mumuree' & whadya Get? Ummm,minced dave. Coin toss on Best Smiling Shield Coin In World, Till NOW.
How does 96 x 5.2 billion only add up to 50 billion instead of 500 billion? Does each instruction take 10 clock cycles to execute? Or is there some logical reason why combining 96 cores leads to 10% efficiency?