IBM pushes the world's fastest processor

September 2 news, according to foreign media reports, IBM will begin shipping the new z196 processor on September 10. This will be the fastest processor in the world. IBM senior engineer Jim Porell said that the new processor will be used in the zEnterprise System server that will begin shipping to customers on September 10. The speed of this processor is a record 5.2GHz.

IBM said at the press conference that the chip was released that the speed of this world record is necessary for companies such as banks and retailers to manage a huge amount of work. Especially as the world becomes more interconnected, data growth has exceeded the world's storage capacity and business transactions continue to grow.

The z196 processor is a quad-core chip that contains 1.4 billion transistors in an area of ​​512 square millimeters. The chip was designed by IBM's engineers in Poughkeepsie, NY, and produced by IBM at the 300-mm wafer fabrication facility in East Fishkil, New York, using a 45-nm SOI process. IBM's labs in Austin, Texas, Germany, Israel, and India all contribute to the z196 chip.

Porell said that we used $1.5 billion to make this chip. 5000 people in 6 countries and 22 laboratories participated in the development of this chip.

At the same time, from a performance point of view, IBM's latest zEnterprise System is IBM's most powerful system to date. The zEnterprise System core server is called zEnterprise 196 and contains 96 of the fastest and most powerful processors in the world, capable of executing 50 billion instructions per second, which is roughly the type 91 in IBM's popular System/360 series servers. The number of instructions executed by the server in 1970 was 17,000 times.

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