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To: Process Boy who wrote (97441)	1/25/2000 12:28:00 AM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

PB, Re: ">>The blazing-fast performance offered by the Model 270 and Model 170 is in part derived from the IBM-pioneered copper wiring technology incorporated into the 64-bit POWER3-II chip. Copper increases microprocessor performance substantially over chips that use aluminum wire. A single POWER3-II chip contains about 400 meters of copper wiring.< This is what I mean about IBM hyping its process technology every chance they get."<< I think what IBM has done in that chip design is to maximize what we used to call "work" done on a per CPU cycle basis, and not push for high megahertz at all. In the server space, SPECint_rate95 sells, not megahertz, as Jim says. Still, 375 seems awfully slow, doesn't it? Matched against Sun's 4-way 400 MHz Enterprise 450, a 4-way Model 270 provides about 40 percent greater power, according to SPECint_rate95, a benchmark that measures commercial processing performance. Tony