Techworld.com - Q&A: Power chip inventor speaks out: "Among IBM’s conspicuous successes is its Power processor, invented in its northern US outpost, the labs in thermally challenged Rochester, Minneapolis -- also the birthplace of the AS/400. The chip’s in many of its servers and powered the Apple Mac until recently. Designed to work in both parallel and uni-processor designs, there are 64,000 of them in Blue Gene, the most powerful supercomputer in the world.
We recently travelled to Rochester and spoke to Frank Soltis, chief scientist at IBM’s iSeries server division. Soltis was a key member of the team that invented the Power chip, and spoke to us about the chip’s birth, the thinking behind its design, and something of what the future holds."
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