a while before more Power6
Friday Oct 05, 2007
Looks like it is February 2008 before we see Power6 blades, the Register writes: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/05/ibm_power6_blade_blue_business_platform/
Right now IBM sells 3.5GHz, 4.2GHz, and the 4.7GHz 2-core to 16-core IBM p570 (power6). The 4.7GHz which according to benchmarks must be Generally Available now but I've asked several times if anyone has actually has one? If not one has one in the field is it generally available? Please add a comment if you datacenter has one, I'd like to verify this.
From what I've been hearing in the rumor mill, IBM p550/p560 is sometime next spring and the IBM p590/p595 in the summer. If one eyeballs IBM public slides this seems to match up. This is a long time to roll-out a processor across a product line. This long time is rather atypical for a major vendor.
Given IBM's confusing "marketing speak" talked about in today's earlier posting "Critical reading absolutely required for IBM", read carefully around IBM's launch dates.
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