65nm SOI process with ten layers of copper interconnect and a low-k dielectric on the first eight levels
Dual-core
Two-way simultaneous multithreading (SMT) on each core
Two memory controllers
For the 16-core configuration, that's 32-way multithreading. Single-core SPEC2006 scores are 21.6 (int) and 22.3 (fp) ... pretty much crushing everything else on the market.
Sounds fun, however, forgive my ignorance, but who is using Power cores nowdays? Not that this isn't a very nice chip(I want one), but will it exist outside the HPC market?
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Just goes to show that IBM still has plenty of life left in its processor design teams. I wonder if they will share some of their design secrets with AMD though, at least on the production side.
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Ace Pace wrote:Sounds fun, however, forgive my ignorance, but who is using Power cores nowdays? Not that this isn't a very nice chip(I want one), but will it exist outside the HPC market?
Mainframe, AIX and HPC people are about all that'll use this.
