World's Fastest Processor: IBM's 5.2GHz Z196
Imagine... How fast this CPU runs! 5.2 GHz.. Remember when a 1.4GHz processor was deemed the world's fastest? Breaking Intel's previous record in 2010, IBM claimed the speed with its zEnterprise clocks in at 5.2GHz, making it the world's fastest microprocessor. IBM had invested more than $1.5 million in this research.
It took more than three years of collaboration with IBM labs in Austin, TX, Germany, Israel and India. The z196 processor is a four-core chip that contains 1.4 billion transistors on a 512-square millimeter (mm) surface. It's manufactured using IBM's 45 nanometer (nm) SOI processor technology, and it makes use of IBM's patented embedded DRAM technology, which allows IBM to place dense DRAM caches, or components, on the same chips as high-speed microprocessors, resulting in improved performance. It has the ability to handle more than 50 billion instructions per second. Up to 60 percent improvement in data intensive and Java workloads is assured by this chip. Just to notify, if the system level is leveraged, it increases software performance which rather diminishes software license costs. The z196 speeds roughly 17,000 times more instructions than the Model 91, the high-end of IBM's popular System/360 family, could execute in 1970.
IBM's 5.2GHz Z196 Chip
It took more than three years of collaboration with IBM labs in Austin, TX, Germany, Israel and India. The z196 processor is a four-core chip that contains 1.4 billion transistors on a 512-square millimeter (mm) surface. It's manufactured using IBM's 45 nanometer (nm) SOI processor technology, and it makes use of IBM's patented embedded DRAM technology, which allows IBM to place dense DRAM caches, or components, on the same chips as high-speed microprocessors, resulting in improved performance. It has the ability to handle more than 50 billion instructions per second. Up to 60 percent improvement in data intensive and Java workloads is assured by this chip. Just to notify, if the system level is leveraged, it increases software performance which rather diminishes software license costs. The z196 speeds roughly 17,000 times more instructions than the Model 91, the high-end of IBM's popular System/360 family, could execute in 1970.
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