More Details Emerge on Future Power7+ and Power8 Chips
August 22, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan
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 |