IBM z196 5.2GHz processor is the world's fastest

IBM has voiced the world's fastest processor -- the z196. The superfast thinly slice is written for supercomputers as well as clocks during 5.2GHz. But sadly we won't be able to buy it as it is approaching to price in hundreds of thousands or perhaps the full million dollars!

The IBM z196 is based on CISC design as well as boast of 1.4 billion transistors on 512 sq. mm thinly slice built on 45-nm PD SOI technology.

The thinly slice provides 64KB L1 direction cache, 128KB L1 interpretation cache, as well as 1.5MB in isolation L2 cache per core.

In addition, it facilities the span of co-processors used for cryptographic operations.

A 4-node complement is versed with 19.5MB of SRAM for L1 in isolation cache, 144 MB for L2 in isolation cache, 576MB of eDRAM for L3 cache, as well as massive 768MB of eDRAM for the level-4 cache.

The thinly slice uses 1079 different instructions, out of which 75 can be used by millicode only, 219 executable by millicode, as well as additional 24 instructions are conditionally executed by millicode.

Expect IBM to officially launch z196 processor in September.

[via Yahoo News]

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