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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/27/ibm_power8_server_chip/
You won't find this in your phone: A 4GHz 12-core Power8 for
badass boxes  Not all silicon boffinry is in mobile... And IBM
refuses to give in to Intel  By Timothy Prickett Morgan  Posted
in Servers, 27th August 2013 11:24 GMT  Hot Chips Big iron sales
are still generating $6bn to $7bn a year for IBM - which is
enough to justify designing its own Power processors and
building its own wafer baker.  At the Hot Chips conference at
Stanford University on Monday, some of the chief architects
behind the Power8 electronics were on hand to show off the feeds
and speeds of the next-generation motor for the company's Power
Systems lineup.  Significantly, the Power8 chip is also the
foundation for Big Blue's OpenPower consortium - an effort to
make it easier to hook networking, accelerators and other
features into Power processors by allowing third parties to
license chunks of intellectual property in the style of ARM
Holdings and its RISC co