IBM announcement shipment of the zEnterpise microprocessor

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[September 02, 2010]

IBM announcement shipment of the zEnterpise microprocessor

Sep 02, 2010 (M2 EQUITYBITES via COMTEX) -- Information technology company IBM (NYSE: IBM) said on Wednesday that its zEnterpise microprocessor in a new version of the IBM mainframe will begin shipping to customers on 10 September 2010.

Claimed to be the world's fastest microsprocessor, IBM said that the chip in its new zEnterprise system clocks a record-breaking speed of 5.2 GHz, which is required to handle growing number of business transactions as global connectivity and data proliferate.

The new IBM zEnterprise technology is the result of an investment of over USD1.5bn by IBM in research and development in the zEnterprise line, as well as over three years of collaboration with some of IBM's top clients around the world.

The z196 processor is a four-core chip that contains 1.4 billion transistors on a 512-square millimetre (mm) surface. The chip was designed by IBM engineers in Poughkeepsie, New York and was manufactured using IBM's 45 nanometre (nm) SOI processor technology in the company's 300mm fab in East Fishkill, New York.

Major contributions to the z196 processor development were also made from IBM labs in Austin, Texas, Germany, Israel and India, The mainframe processor makes use of IBM's patented embedded DRAM (eDRAM) technology, which allows IBM to place dense DRAM caches, or components, on the same chips as high-speed microprocessors, resulting in improved performance.

Pricing details were not available.

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