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    IBM Breaks the 7nm Chip Barrier

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    • scottalanmiller
      scottalanmiller last edited by

      http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33460913

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      • dafyre
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        I wonder if this will be for increasing the speed of CPUs or if it will be for adding more cores. CPUs haven't shown any significant jump in speeds since we hit the 3 gHz mark...(I have seen higher speeds, but these aren't common in my neck of the woods right now).

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        • coliver
          coliver @dafyre last edited by

          @dafyre said:

          I wonder if this will be for increasing the speed of CPUs or if it will be for adding more cores. CPUs haven't shown any significant jump in speeds since we hit the 3 gHz mark...(I have seen higher speeds, but these aren't common in my neck of the woods right now).

          It seems to me that this will go a long way toward miniaturization. Getting more power out of smaller CPUs then we currently can.

          I wasn't even aware that IBM was still in the chip making game... shows how much I know.

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          • scottalanmiller
            scottalanmiller last edited by

            It's primarily for adding more transistors and lowering power consumption. How that is then used will vary, but speeds can only realistically go up so much given the use of copper.

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            • scottalanmiller
              scottalanmiller @coliver last edited by

              @coliver said:

              I wasn't even aware that IBM was still in the chip making game... shows how much I know.

              It's called Power. Every server that IBM makes is on IBM chips.

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              • coliver
                coliver @scottalanmiller last edited by coliver

                @scottalanmiller said:

                @coliver said:

                I wasn't even aware that IBM was still in the chip making game... shows how much I know.

                It's called Power. Every server that IBM makes is on IBM chips.

                Oh, I've heard of Power, just wasn't aware they were still making it. Thanks.

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                • scottalanmiller
                  scottalanmiller @coliver last edited by

                  @coliver said:

                  Oh, I've heard of Power, just wasn't aware they were still making it. Thanks.

                  IBM i Series, P Series and mainframes are still around. Anything running AIX, System i, System z, etc. are on Power. Linux and several BSDs support Power too.

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