> Power5+, Power6 -> zSeries is what I've been waiting for years.
It does make a lot of sense. Assuming multiple cores per chip, then a lot of the issues around the 390 being weak for problems involving computational intensity could just go away. Take a 4 core Power6, dedicate just one of the 4 to floating point, and you've got yourself a fairly serious number cruncher. Stuff 20 of them on a MCM, and we're in spitting range of a gigaflop per module. > One processor family across the board. Way to go, IBM! It'll be even more interesting to see how the I/O system develops. If we start having crossovers between Z and P for that stuff, then this gets even more intelligent. Neat stuff. I just hope it's true. -- db
