After Apple gave IBM the boot in favor of Intel, it would appear that they took this to heart and are working at coming back with a vengeance!

Bucking a trend in the chip industry, IBM Corp. said Tuesday its upcoming Power6 microprocessor for servers will run at unprecedented speeds while keeping a lid on power requirements and heat.

For years, chip makers have improved computer performance by shrinking the size of transistors, squeezing more of them into smaller spaces and ratcheting up the speed at which they process instructions. But recently the benefits have diminished as the chips’ power requirements and temperatures have risen. [Read the rest]

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