Power6 Ups the Ante for Virtualization, Power Management
November 13, 2006 Timothy Prickett Morgan
Last month, IBM told the world about some of the features that it had built into its future Power6 RISC processors, which are expected to appear in IBM’s System p machines around mid-2007 and maybe in its System i machines around that time, or maybe in late 2007 and perhaps early 2008. Big Blue is being a little vague about exactly when Power6 will come out for reasons it has not specified. But the company is being clear that when it does come out, Power6 will be jammed full of improvements. As previously reported in this newsletter, the Power6 chip |