IBM z196 5.2GHz Processor For Supercomputers

IBM has proudly introduced the z196 superfast processor, which is designed for supercomputers. Running at 5.2GHz, the IBM z196 is based on CISC architecture and contains 1.4 billion transistors on 512 sq. mm chip fabricated on 45-nm PD SOI technology. The chip also features a 64 Kbyte level-1 instruction cache, a 128-Kbyte L1 data cache, a 1.5-Mbyte private L2 cache per core, plus a pair of co-processors used for cryptographic operations. IBM will officially release the z196 processor in September 2010.