Power8 Packs More Punch Than Expected
August 18, 2014 Timothy Prickett Morgan
Here is something you don’t see every day in the systems business. IBM is getting even better performance out of the new Power8 processors that were launched back in April than it anticipated. Systems performance engineer Alex Mericas, who works in IBM’s Systems and Technology Group, gave a presentation at the Hot Chips 26 conference in Silicon Valley last week, revealing that that the Power8 was delivering a little more oomph than expected. As The Four Hundred previously reported, IBM revealed a lot of the details around the Power8 chip about a year ago at the Hot Chips 25 |