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Details spill on IBM's big iron Power7 servers

Price favors profits not volume

Posted in Servers, 9th August 2010 17:36 GMT With Big Blue getting ready to launch its biggest Power7-based server, the… The Power 795 is a 256-core, 1,024-thread behemoth that will, as El Reg suggested, sport 8TB of main memory for those…

Wicked core price

The six-core Power7 chip spinning at 3.3GHz costs $7,000 for the processor card plus $4,850 to activate a core, or $6,017 per core when you activate… And finally, the eight-core Power7 chip running at 3.55GHz, which is only… Those are not prices that are sustainable for entry machines, Unix or otherwise. So it is reasonable to expect IBM to…

IBM выпустила 256-ядерный сервер Power 795