IIRC the G6(XBOX) and Z6 Share much of same geometry. >From Webb's rollout paper in 2007: Siblings, not identical twins Share lots of DNA –IBM 65nm SOI technology –Design building blocks: •latches, SRAMs, regfiles, dataflow elements –Large portions of FXU, BFU, DFU, MC, GX –EI3 interface technology –Core pipeline design style •High-frequency, low-latency, mostly-in-order –Many designers Different personalities –Very different ISAs=> very different cores –Cache hierarchy and coherency model –SMP topology and protocol –Chip organization –IBM z6 optimized for Enterprise Data Serving Hub In a message dated 1/31/2013 12:30:04 A.M. Central Standard Time, sipp...@sg.ibm.com writes:
Keep in mind that IBM optimizes zEnterprise processors for high performance (and highly concentrated performance) of multiple concurrent large scale workloads and continuous operations. That's not a good description of an iPad processor's requirements, for example. But if you've got some other ideas.... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
