iSeries blurb in CPU magazine

[Loyd Goodbar <loyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Found in CPU magazine, July 2004, p8:

"IBM'S eServer iSeries Servers Sport New Power5 Microprocessors

"After $500 million in development expenses and more than two years of design,
IBM has released its Power5 microprocessors and the first line of servers that
will use them. The chips run at 1.65GHz and perform about twice as fast as the
Power4 microprocessors released in 2002. The new chips are being used in IBM's
i5 520 server starting at $9,995 and i5 570 server starting at $85,200. The
Power5 is a 64-bit microprocessor with 276 million transistors, compared to
170 million in the Power4. Among its features is the ability to partition
itself into 10 different systems, meaning it can run up to 10 different
operating systems and their applications at the same time. Al Zollar, general
manager of iSeries server products at IBM, says this virtualization engine
will bring one of the features of mainframe computing to servers: the ability
to use the server as much as 90% of the time, compared to current utilization
rates as low as 5%."

Nothing we don't already know, but nice to see some news in a PC-centric mag.

Loyd
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