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I. AMD Announces "First Commercial 5.0 GHz CPU"







II. The Gigahertz Myth 2.0?  Sort Of




Haswell v. FX



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RE: Almost
By Argon18 on 6/12/2013 3:16:59 PM , Rating: 3
Huh? Since when is POWER architecture obscure? It's been around since 1990. Twenty-three years. And its the only architecture that AIX runs on. AIX is probably the most robust general purpose UNIX out there, and most large businesses have AIX servers for their most critical processing. We've got dozens of them. Some of them we're only allowed to reboot once every 2 years. Seriously reliable stuff! They also run Linux (really well, I might add).

I can understand though how the high end stuff like POWER might seem obscure to the wintel peecee & video gamer crowd.

RE: Almost
By retrospooty on 6/12/2013 4:03:05 PM , Rating: 2
Since forever. You do get that outside of a small minority of server related stuff siwht specific purposes, its basically unheard of right? You are posting all over this thread about it as if it matters, or its a player at all. Its a Niche. Like I said, its all fine if you can have your processor running its specific tasks at a high speed, but its not an all around speed king and for the most part, people arent even aware it exists. Itanium is really fast in its specific tasks as well, but no-one cares.


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