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IBM's Power 5 to Offer 4x Performance of Power 4
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Posted by: TotalRecall
IBM has fired up a computer running IBM's forthcoming Power5 processor, a top IBM executive said Monday, predicting that systems with the new chip will have four times the performance than those using the current Power4.
Getting a system to run is a key milestone for the company's future plans to pressure Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard in the Unix server market.
IBM's Power5 processor is the single most important component in IBM's years-long struggle to establish a stronger position in the Unix server market. About $21 billion worth of Unix servers were sold in 2001, and Sun Microsystems maintains the top share despite intense pressure from IBM and Hewlett-Packard.
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