It’s All About Power


In my last entry regarding IBM’s claim for new x86 technology for the datacenter, I mentioned I was trying to get an answer from IBM regarding details on the “silicon innovation” it used. That quest is ongoing, and I hope to find some actual technology, and not just marketing mumbo-jumbo at the heart of it. Keep checking back, I will give my report here. Just a few weeks after Big Blue... » read more

New x86 Technology For The Datacenter?


I wasn’t too surprised when IBM announced new servers early this month that they claim “break constraints of 30-year technology design,” since Big Blue is constantly releasing new products that they say are groundbreaking in one way or another. Reading deeper into the news, IBM is using new semiconductor technology at the heart of its new eX5 servers that it said took its engineering t... » read more

Facing Up To Reality


Welcome to the world of power awareness. Engineers are well aware that just as timing and area were previously separate considerations in the chip design process, power is also now a top-level consideration. In this blog, we will examine issues related not only to low-power in chip design, but the wide-reaching topic of power-aware design overall. Engineers today must consider the impacts of... » read more

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