IBM makes details Power 4 chips known
IBM intention is the whole computer system faster to make, by which the emphasis lies on faster cooperation with the memory, instead of only the increasing of the speed of the processors.
The Power 4, especially for high-end servers, encompass two 1 GHz processors just as level-2 cachememory. The doorvoercapaciteit of the bus between the second level cache and the micro processors is more than 100 Gb per second, as at the doorgifte of 20 movies in a second, according to IBM.
IBM wanted to give yet no details about the prices and availability of the Power 4-chips.