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It has some interesting and not before seen stuff for those following the architecture casually. Its also got a fairly full description of the architecture for those whom want to have a look at a next generation architecture contender.

http://www.power.org/events/powercon...iew_POWER7.pdf

Some notes:

  • Big @ 567mm^2 on the 45nm process.
  • Powerful, good performance/watt.
  • Severely multithreaded at 4x threads per core.
  • Its got a huge 32MB L3 cache.

 



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