[TriLUG] Fwd: [PLUG] IBM 970 - the other shoe drops

[Magnus]

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> From: "William H. Magill" <magill at mcgillsociety.org>
> Date: Fri Jul 18, 2003  8:25:13  PM America/New_York
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> Subject: [PLUG] IBM 970 - the other shoe drops
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> IBM finally dropped the other shoe...
>
> The 970 Chip (Apple's G5) will power a new series of "low end" super  
> powerful Linux servers. ... cheap.
>
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1197450,00.asp
>
> "The ULE models, which will run Linux and IBM's AIX OS, will ship in  
> 2U two-way and 4U four-way configurations. A base configuration of the  
> 4U is expected to cost less than $3,500, sources said.
> ...
> With the upcoming PowerPC 970- and GPUL2-based ULE products, IBM will  
> stress better performance than Xeon-based servers, 32- and 64-bit  
> compatibility with no migration costs or penalties, and linear price  
> scaling from two-way to four-way systems. Against Itanium and Itanium  
> 2 servers, IBM will promote the ULE as cheaper, less power-hungry,  
> cooler and easier to set up."
>
> With AMD on the ropes "because of SARS," the end of the WinTel (*86  
> instruction set) hegemony may well be on the way.
>
> ... While IBM is a large consumer of chips, Apple is an order of  
> magnitude larger. With the two of them "entering the consumer market"  
> the price of the 970 chips is dirt cheap. Coupled with the new Fab  
> where they are being built, the 970 PPC and its successors are going  
> to be a cheap high performance chip that the *86 folks are going to  
> have a tough time competing with.
>
>
> T.T.F.N.
> William H. Magill
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C. Magnus Hedemark
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