IBM Launches Power7 Chip

IBM is set to launch its new eight core Power 7 processors and systems based on the new CPU today. Expect a press release later this afternoon.

The processor is a big step for IBM, integrating eight processing cores in one chip package, with each core capable of executing four tasks--called "threads"--turning an individual chip into a virtual 32-core processor. As a yardstick, Intel's high-end Xeon processors--systems that Power7 will compete with--typically have two threads per processing core.

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