After a good lecture from the Prescott era, Chipzilla is getting its sweet stroll in the race for the fastest processor in the gigantic galaxy. Remember when the Pentium 4c 3.0GHz was what Intel said to be the fastest? Time sure flies. Now IBM, who has been under the radar after Apple migrated to Intel, recently announced that their 5.2GHz z196 processor is the fastest chip in the planet. I’m sure I’ve seen numbers far higher than that, from crazy enthusiasts like Kingpin, while fooling around with some liquid nitrogen.
However, IBM does it without those funky yet ‘seemed dangerous’ setup, as this is an enterprise chip which does it without those liquid nitrogen around. It’s a four-core slab that was manufactured using the outfit’s 45nm process technology. Numbers wise, 1.4 billion transistors, and the ability to handle more than 50 billion calculations per second. Sadly however, we have a number comparison from Fujitsu’s Venus CPU, and it can handle a staggering 128 billion instructions per second.
Sad news for you rich kids out there, this will not show up in the customization list of your next Alienware rig, so you won’t know if it runs Crysis max. Well I’m sure it will, but meh, just merely.
SOURCE via IBM
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