Next Tuesday (May 22), IBM will introduce a new generation of Unix servers for the first time using its Power6 processor.

It is true that it is still late because since 2004 IBM has announced it will launch Power6 support products in 2006, but it has only been Unix servers until now.

IBM launched a new server with integrated Power6 chips images 1 Source: sg.hu According to sources close to IBM, the company may only release a mid-range midrange integrated Power6 server in the first half of this year. Similar models will be available in the second half of this year.

Power6 server chips can integrate more chips than Power5 + servers in quantities up to 64 chips (while Power5 server + up to 32 chips).

Like the Power5 + series and Power5 + series, the Power6 chip also has two processor cores, each of which can execute scripts simultaneously. Meanwhile, Power4, IBM's first dual-core server chip, also has two cores, but each core can handle only one.

Power6 runs at double Power5 + clock speed, from 4GHz-5GHz; and in some cases, the Power6 clock may exceed 5GHz.

The Power6 also comes with a AltiVec multimedia extension (used in the PowerPC 970 series), which is rarely used by IBM. Previously, IBM blade servers and Apple computers used PowerPC 970 chip models, but now Apple has switched to Intel chips. IBM also said it will build blade servers using Power6.