IMB z10 Microprocessor

The z10 is a microprocessor chip made by IBM for their System z10 mainframe computers, released February 26, 2008. It was called "z6" during development. The processor implements the CISC z/Architecture and has four cores. Each core has a 64 KB L1 instruction cache, a 128 KB L1 data cache and a 3 MB L2 cache (called the L1.5 cache by IBM). Finally, there is a 24 MB shared L3 cache (referred to as the L2 cache by IBM). The chip measures 21.720.0 mm and consists of 993 million transistors fabricated in IBM's 65 nm SOI fabrication process (CMOS 11S), supporting speeds of 4.4 GHz and above more than twice the clock speed as former mainframes with a 15 FO4 cycle. Each z10 chip has two 48 GB/s (48 billion bytes per second) SMP hub ports, four 13 GB/s memory ports, two 17 GB/s I/O ports, and 8765 contacts. The z10 processor was co-developed with and shares many design traits with the POWER6 processor, such as fabrication technology, logic design, execution unit, floating-point units, bus technology (GX bus) and pipeline design style, i.e., a high frequency, low latency, deep (14 stages in the z10), in-order pipeline. However, the processors are quite dissimilar in other respects, such as cache hierarchy and coherency, SMP topology and protocol, and chip organization. The different ISAs result in very different cores there are 894 unique z10 instructions, 75% of which are implemented entirely in hardware. The z/Architecture is a CISC architecture, backwards compatible to the IBM System/360 architecture from the 1960s.

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IBM z196 Microprocessor The z196 microprocessor is a chip made by IBM for their zEnterprise 196 mainframe computers, announced on July 22, 2010. The processor was developed over a three year time span by IBM engineers from Poughkeepsie, New York; Austin, Texas; and Boblingen, Germany at a cost of US$1.5 billion. Manufactured at IBM's Fishkill, New York fabrication plant, the processor began shipping on September 10, 2010. IBM stated that it was the world's fastest microprocessor at the time. 2 The chip measures 512.3 mm and consists of 1.4 billion transistors fabricated in IBM's 45 nm CMOS silicon on insulator fabrication process, supporting speeds of 5.2 GHz: at the time, the highest clock speed CPU ever produced for commercial sale.
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The processor implements the CISC z/Architecture with a new superscalar, out-of-order pipeline and 100 new instructions. The instruction pipeline has 15 to 17 stages; the instruction queue can hold 40 instructions; and up to 72 instructions can be "in flight". It has four cores, each with a private 64 KB L1 instruction cache, a private 128 KB L1 data cache and a private 1.5 MB L2 cache. In addition, there is a 24 MB shared L3 cache implemented in eDRAMand controlled by two on-chip L3 cache controllers. [1] There's also an additional shared L1 cache used for compression and cryptography operations. Each core has six RISC-like execution units, including two integer units, two load-store units, one binary floating point unit and one decimal floating pointunit. The z196 chip can decode three instructions and execute five operations in a single clock cycle. The z196 chip has on board DDR3 RAM memory controller supporting a RAID like configuration to recover from memory faults. The z196 also includes a GX bus controller for accessing host channel adapters and peripherals. Additionally, each chip includes co-processors for cryptographic and compression functionality.

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IMB zEC12 Microprocessor

The zEC12 microprocessor (zEnterprise EC12 or just z12) is a chip made by IBM for their zEnterprise EC12 mainframe computers, announced on August 28, 2012. Manufactured at IBM's East Fishkill, New York fabrication plant, the processor will begin shipping in the fall of 2012. IBM stated that it is the world's fastest microprocessor and is about 25% faster than its predecessor the z196.

IBM System z9
IBM System z9 is a line of IBM mainframe. The first models were available on September 16, 2005. The System z9 also marks the end of the previously used eServer zSeries naming convention. It was also the last mainframe computer that NASA ever used.

z/OS
z/OS is a 64-bit operating system for mainframe computers, produced by IBM. It derives from and is the successor to OS/390, which in turn followed a string of MVS versions. Like OS/390, z/OS combines a number of formerly separate, related products, some of which are still optional. z/OS offers the attributes of modern operating systems but also retains much of the functionality originating in the 1960s and each subsequent decade that is still found in daily use (backward compatibility is one of z/OS's central design [1] philosophies). z/OS was first introduced in October, 2000. The newest version is z/OS Version 2 Release 1.

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PowerPC 750GX Microprocessor Feb.15,2005-presentation

The IBM PowerPC 750GX microprocessor is the fastest and newest addition to the IBM 7xx PowerPC microprocessor family. The 750GX expands the capabilities of the IBM PowerPC 7xx processor family to support more performance-demanding and power-sensitive applications. The 750GX is architecturally based on the PowerPC 750FX processor, and implements several enhancements that address the performance requirements of embedded applications. Running at frequencies up to 1 GHz, the 750GX includes 1 MB of internal L2 cache, 4-way set-associative, running at core frequency with cache locking by way, additional L1 and L2 cache buffers allowing pipelining of up to four data cache miss operations, and the capability for up to 200-MHz operation of the 60x system bus interface with additional bus pipelining. The IBM PowerPC 750GX is ideally suited for a variety of systems, including networking, communications, storage, imaging, computing and consumer applications.

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IBM486BLX3
May,26,2005 the number on the top is 50G3589. Vinicio from Italy

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These are commonly called "silvercaps". It' an Intel 386DX core in IBM packaging. For this particular FRU (there are FRUs of 51F1797 & 63F7615 that return CPUIDs of 0305h) it has been the only 'C' step 386DX (CPUID 0303h is the 'B' steps, 0305h starts the 'D' steps...) I have ever heard about, returning a CPUID of 0304h!

IMB 33GO395 Posted: Sten July,22,2007 IBM 33G0395 is 486 SLC2 66Mhz (33x2) I have a motherboard with this chip. Best Rgrds Sten

IBM EMPPC63ePG-100-01L5342 Posted by : Worfvx March,12,2011 Embedded IBM PPC603e from Minolta PI3500 printer. 240-pin PQFP

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