IBM has decided to fold its mainframe processor chips into the Power family, much the way it moved its AS/400 engines into Power architecture years ago. IBM says the mainframe versions of the Power 6 or p6 chips, which it calls z6, will have some unique features.
It is very hard to predict the timing of an official announcement, but Big Blue has been conducting customer briefings since last August.
The IBM slide show is here (warning: 2 meg download) and our preliminary analysis is here.
With mainframe sales in a sharp dip as the financial sector firms that buy so many putting all capital equipment acquisitions on hold, IBM may have to act more quickly and more decisively than it would under more propitious conditions.
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