IBM developed the world's "fastest" microprocessor chip

According to foreign media reports, IBM recently announced that it has developed the world's "fastest" microprocessor chip. The microprocessor chip that IBM calls z196 is an enterprise-class quad-core chip. The chip is loaded with 1.4 billion transistors on a surface of 512 square millimeters and can complete 50 billion instructions per second, and its frequency is 5.2 GHz. Although hardcore overclockers can use microprocessors such as frequency hopping to achieve a frequency higher than 5.2GHz, IBM's z196 does not require other cooling cooling measures to achieve a frequency of 5.2GHz.

The z196 chip is manufactured using IBM 45nm SOI processor technology and embeds DRAM (eDRAM) technology. In the past three years, IBM spent $1.5 billion to develop the chip. Experts expect that IBM will use the chip in the mainframe zEnterprise 196 in the near future. The zEnterprise 196 system is 60% more computational power than its predecessor, the processor system z10, and is nearly 17,000 times more powerful than IBM's first-generation Model 91 system in 1970.

Engadget website revealed that the processing speed of the Fujitsu Venus CPU is 128 billion times that of the American Standard, but the processor cannot be applied to supercomputers temporarily. IBM's latest development, the z196, will begin to be applied to large computers on September 10.