IBM Slashes Power6 Server Prices
PrintIBM hasn't exactly been forthcoming about when it will ship its 8-core Power7 servers, but in the meantime, there's still plenty of Power6 inventory to clear out. To help do that, Big Blue has implemented some pretty hefty price cuts.
According to The Register, a processor book based on 4.2GHz dual-core Power6 chips without any memory activated with all the cores turned off now costs $33,456, a savings of 32 percent. Activating each core costs $16,796, also a 32 percent savings prior to the cuts.
This is a similar approach to the one IBM took last June when it cut prices to spur sales, including memory, which saw drops range anywhere from 28 to 70 percent.
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nekollx
March 19, 2010 at 8:01am
IBM can make a 4.2ghz cpu but AMD/Intel can't?
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praetor_alpha
March 19, 2010 at 8:37am
I'm absolutely sure that they can, but they can't do it without charging north of 2 grand for it and have a decent air cooling solution that doesn't require ear protection.
And don't forget that IBM does not manufacture x86 chips, and never has.
And what's the point of dropping more than 30 grand on a machine with no functional cores?
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