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  3. May 2007

Re: Power6 on System i

David,

Frank also talked about the differences between Power and PowerPC. Power is
a superset of PowerPC, and i5/OS uses the complete superset. Since AIX and
Linux use the PowerPC subset, they can get to market far quicker than i5/OS
can on a new Power chip.

Trevor

On 5/23/07 9:31 AM, "David Gibbs" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I heard from a co-worker, who was at COMMON UK, that Frank Soltis
announced that there were new System p models using the Power 6
technology where the chip speed is 4.7 GHZ with no special cooling
requirements. Apparently Intel could not do this and had to withdraw
their fast processors from the market a while back. He was thrilled.
When they pre-announced last year clock speeds of 4-5 in the press some
analysts called them liars. He seemed vindicated.

He also mentioned to expect new System i models NEXT year using this
technology.

david

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System i ... for when you can't afford to be out of business



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