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Google on POWER and IBM's 2017 POWER9 plans as announced in OpenPower Summit 2016

Accepted submission by RamiK at 2016-04-20 12:46:45
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RamiK [soylentnews.org] writes:

IBM's Power9 processor, due to arrive in the second half of next year, will have 24 cores, double that of today's Power8 chips, it emerged today.

Meanwhile, Google has gone public with its Power work – confirming it has ported many of its big-name web services to the architecture, and that rebuilding its stack for non-Intel gear is a simple switch flip.

There was a lot announced at this morning's OpenPower Summit in San Jose, California. Here's what went down...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/07/open_power_summit_power9/ [theregister.co.uk] ( Apr 2016 at 00:28, Chris Williams )

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