IBM Introduces World's Fastest Processor: 5.2GHz Enterprise Chip2010-09-03 09:42 by DanielaTags: IBM, processor
As global connectivity and data proliferate, IBM Corp. has readied a new mainframe computer called zEnterprise 196 capable of executing more than 50 billion instructions per second (BIPS) to handle the growing number of business transactions. The computer giant is planning to begin shipping this new mainframe on September 10. The computer is powered by 96 microprocessors with clock speeds up to 5.2 GHz. At 5.2 GHz, IBM claims that the microprocessor used in the new version of the IBM mainframe system is the world’s fastest. Eighty of the 96 processors are configurable cores, as per the ZEnterprise data sheet. The z196 processor, which is a four-core chip comprising 1.4 billion transistors on a 512-square millimeter surface, was designed by IBM engineers in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. and was fabricated using the company’s 45 nm silicon-on-insulator (SOI) processor technology. IBM said that major contributions to the z196 processor development came from IBM labs in Austin, TX, Germany, Israel and India. Read more -here-
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