IBM Power 7 CPU 8 Core

IBM is introducing its new Power 7 CPU at Hot Chips Conference at Stanford University, which will hopefully beat the products from Intel and AMD.

Power 7 is an eight-core CPU based on 45nm process which runs a lower clock frequency than the Power 6 while making up for that with better support for multithreading. Equipped with 32MB eDRAM cache and an integrated dual quad-channel DDR3 memory controller, the CPU would have a whopping 300Gb/s bandwidth.

Analyst Nathan Brookwood from Insight64 said, “I am sure Power 7 will be the fastest processor around, probably faster than Intel’s Nehalem in some benchmarks.”

IBM Power 7 is said to begin shipping at the beginning of next year.

source: expreview.com