Talk:POWER5

199.90.15.3 contested the validity of the claim that POWER4 was successful. Here is my POV. POWER4 was successful since: POWER4 did all this while being used solely by IBM. Pretty succesful according to me. -- Henriok 16:24, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
 * IBM was the #1 UNIX vendor during the period
 * it held and kept several performance records (TPC-C, fastest supercomuter in the US)
 * it spawed PowerPC 970 and POWER5
 * The former saved Apple, the latter reinforced IBMs position as #1 UNIX vendor performance wise and by revenue
 * it replaced 2 different architectures (RS64 and POWER3) unifying two server families (pSeries and iSeries)
 * was the first commercially availabe dual core processor
 * survived as several high end RISC architectures lost to x86 (PA-RISC, MIPS, Alpha). SPARC nearly died too
 * was the most common supercomputer processor during the period, excluding x86 processors

"Sizing Up the Super Heavyweights"
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