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.
Do you know what its like to live on the far side of Uranus?







