New server power at Hot Chips Conference

IBM Corporation showed off its new microprocessor at the Hot Chips Conference this week, which boasts a lot of strength with a 45nm chop and an eight core standard.

Advanced Micro Devices also debuted its 12 core Magny-Cours device which is based on the x86 based systems market that makes use of a multi-chip module.

Also introduced was the Nehalem EX microchip by Intel Corp which is basically an upgraded version of the Xeon 5500.

Sun Micosystems also has a processor to add to the mix at the Conference, the Sparc-based Niagara processor which is still waiting to get approval after merging with the Oracle Corporation.

After all is said and done at the conference, many people expect the Power7 from IBM to be the standout from the convention due to its ability to support more threads, cache, and memory bandwidth compared to the new chips from its other competitors.

The device is able to use both IBM’s DRAM technology and SRAM to pack in more cache, and is expected to outweigh its competitors largely when it comes to bandwidth, which is important since with the multi-core design the issue it will address is accessing data at a high rate.

IBM is rumoured to already be using the chip in its labs, but will actually begin to ship the processors to the public in early 2010.