IBM has unveiled what it claims is the fastest processor in the world. The Power 6 runs at 4.7GHz, and has an 8MB L2 cache and 790 million transistors built on a 65nm scale. Big Blue is calling the Power 6 its greenest chip as it uses the same amount of energy as the Power 5, but has twice the performance. The Power 6 is twice as powerful as the entire Deep Blue supercomputing system that beat chess champion Gary Kasparov 10 years ago, and IBM claims that it is 2.3 times faster than its nearest competitor.

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