February - 2010

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  Whitepaper on Stride and Prefetch feature in ISA 2.06

  POWER stands for Performance Optimization with Enhanced RISC. Power architecture is synonymous with performance. Introduced by IBM in 1991, POWER1 was a superscalar design that implemented register renaming andout-of-order execution.
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  What is New in the Server Environment of Power ISA v2.06?

  The Power ISA evolved out of IBM’s POWER and later PowerPC architectures. The first version of the Power ISA – v2.03, taken largely from PowerPC v2.02 and PowerPC Book E v1.9, was released in 2006.
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  Cell Processor Technical Specifications

  The Cell/B.E.™ resource center is a good starting point for developers looking for information about IBM Cell/B.E. technology-based software.

November - 2009

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  End-use Applications for Multicore Processors: Freescale QorIQ™ Communications Platform P1, P2 and P4 Series

  The newest processors in Freescale Semiconductor’s next-generation Multicore Communications Platform cover a range of applications, from low-end routers for small and medium businesses to complex network management. This paper provides details and diagrams for five example applications that can be enabled by Freescale’s QorIQ™ communications platform P1, P2 and P4 Series processors.
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  Hypervisors Thrive with Power Architecture

  In concert with the inexorable demand for increasingly sophisticated functionality in embedded systems, semiconductor designers and systems software providers are creating novel methods to break through the recent flattening in Moore’s performance curve.
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  Power Architecture® Wireless Access Market Differentiators

  The wireless access market segment is dominated today by the realities of long-term evolution (LTE). Many companies are strongly committed to LTE and believe that it offers simplified technology, better scalability, and ultimately a better user experience for next-generation mobile broadband.
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  Power Architecture® Leadership at Glance

  Thanks to the fast pace of technological innovations there has been an explosion of voice and video applications that allow consumers to stream content not only to their PCs, but also to smart phones, Mobile Internet Devices and gaming consoles.
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  Virtualization for Embedded Power Architecture CPUs

  Technology innovations are continuously impact the Internet, applications, and services. Internet traffic is rapidly expanding and becoming more varied and complex, with an explosion in voice and video applications.

October - 2009

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  Power Architecture® ISA 2.06 Stride N Prefetch Engines to Boost Applications Performance

  Increasing memory latencies poses serious performance impact for workloads that are memory intensive.