IBM and Oracle fight it out at the Hot Chips 24 symposium, presenting rival RISC chips for so-called "big iron" machines-- the IBM Power7+ and the Oracle T5.
Clearly vendors still invest in non-x86 servers, even as the market migrates away from the RISC/Unix platforms. According to Gartner, during Q2 2012 alone the category sees a -25.1% Y-o-Y decline in EMEA.
IBM makes the 8-core Power7+ with a 32nm process (compared to 45nm for the Power7), allowing for several new features within a chip of around the same size. Level 3 cache memory is up to Read more...