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Talking about IBM Power processors and the road ahead

http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh082211-story01.html

Back in early May, I gave you what little information I had been able to gather up on the impending Power7+ and future Power8 processor designs and their possible announcement dates in Power Systems machines. The data was a little thin, and intentionally so on the part of Big Blue. But with Oracle kicking up a big fuss over Intel‘s Itanium processor roadmap, which the software giant is saying is a dead end, it looks like IBM decided it was time to be a more specific.

Not terribly more specific, mind you. Server makers and chip makers don’t like to make promises because business conditions change and issues crop up in reality that can cause a processor or server design and its schedule to diverge from the roadmap.

Check out this interesting article talking about the Power platform, it’s always interesting to read about the real alternatives out their and to examine the possibilities of what lies ahead, I’m off to read more and check out the IBM site for specific road-maps.

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