Ace’s Hardware has received some performance numbers, from IBM, for their new line of POWER5 dual core processors in the industry standard SPEC line of benchmarks. Very impressive performance nubers but I think most chip makers can catch up once their own dual core CPUs are available, regardless, interesting times for server consumers.
IBM POWER5 Performance
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