Analysts said the chip, which operates at 4.7 gigahertz and cycles at a speed 25 million times as fast as the flap of hummingbird wings, will allow businesses to consolidate servers and handle substantially larger workloads. By comparison, Intel Corp.'s Itanium 2 server processor tops out at 1.66 gigahertz.
In addition to raw power, the new IBM chip also has massive bandwidth -- 300 gigabytes per second, which the company says can process the download of the entire iTunes music catalog, currently more than five million songs, in about a minute. To feed data quickly to the processor, IBM has quadrupled the amount of on-chip memory, or cache, to eight megabytes. The chip is designed for higher-end servers running the Unix operating system and is accompanied by the launch of a new server designed around it.
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