Eric Fluhr

TL;DR: The POWER6trade microprocessor combines ultra-high frequency operation, aggressive power reduction, a highly scalable memory subsystem, and mainframe-like reliability, availability, and serviceability.

TL;DR: In this article, a data stream associated with a process and determining a depth associated with the data stream based upon prefetch factors including the number of currently concurrent data streams and data consumption rates are allocated with data stream to reflect the determined depth of data stream.

TL;DR: The 12-core 649mm2 POWER8™ leverages IBM's 22nm eDRAM SOI technology, and microarchitectural enhancements to deliver up to 2.5× the socket performance of its 32nm predecessor, POWER7+™ [3].

TL;DR: POWER8™ is a 12-core processor fabricated in IBM's 22 nm SOI technology with core and cache improvements driven by big data applications, providing 2.5× socket performance over POWER7+™, and power efficiency is improved with several techniques.

TL;DR: Some of the circuit methodology and implementation innovations used in the development of POWER6, with particular emphasis on custom, synthesized, register file and SRAM design, as well as the electrical characterizations performed in the lab are described.