RE: POWER6 now or later?

That's just Steve. Any manufacturer will focus their efforts on where the
most demand is. The SMB market is not at that point yet.

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark S. Waterbury
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 4:57 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: POWER6 now or later?

Steve:

Power5+ is plenty powerful and more than fast enough for the P05, P10
and P20 tier (SMB) servers.

I was at a customer site a few weeks ago, where they run ALL of their
production applications on one model 520, P10 processor group, and it is
VERY fast.

So, it makes sense to me that IBM would introduce the new faster, more
powerful POWER6 starting at the high end. I am not sure why only the
570, so far, and not the 595 yet, but I imagine that will come soon
enough. Only later will I expect to see POWER6 "trickle down" to
smaller models (515, 520, 525, 550), if at all.

Speculating that IBM is somehow having trouble producing POWER6 chips is
just spreading FUD, in the absence of any facts.

That's my opinion.

Mark

Steve Richter wrote:
IBM might be having trouble producing the P6. The mid and low range
system p models are still on the p5. you would expect customers to
hold off purchasing those systems until the new models are available.
so IBM, by announcing last month that the P6 was available, is
effectively telling its customers to wait for the new models with
twice the speed of the old. My thinking is that IBM thought in July
when it announced the high end, that the low end would be ready to
sell sooner than later.

-Steve