POWER4

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POWER4 is a 64-bit microprocessor developed by IBM that introduced a dual-core design and high-performance server capabilities in the early 2000s.

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instanceOf 64-bit microprocessor
IBM POWER architecture processor
microprocessor
alsoKnownAs IBM POWER4 NERFINISHED
architecture POWER NERFINISHED
cacheHierarchy off-chip L3 cache support
on-chip L1 cache
on-chip L2 cache
category server processor
company IBM NERFINISHED
companyPlatform IBM eServer pSeries NERFINISHED
coreCount 2
design dual-core
developer IBM
dieIntegration two processor cores on a single die
endianness big-endian
executionType out-of-order execution
fabricationTechnology CMOS
family IBM POWER family NERFINISHED
floatingPointUnit integrated high-performance FPU
generation fourth-generation POWER processor
instructionSetArchitecture PowerPC NERFINISHED
introductionYear 2001
L1CacheType separate instruction and data caches
marketPosition high-end RISC server CPU
microarchitecture POWER4 microarchitecture NERFINISHED
notableFeature first commercially available dual-core POWER processor from IBM
highly integrated chip with two cores and large shared cache
operatingSystems AIX NERFINISHED
Linux on Power NERFINISHED
pipelineType superscalar
powerManagement server-optimized power and thermal design
predecessor POWER3 NERFINISHED
primaryUse high-performance computing
servers
registerArchitecture general-purpose registers and floating-point registers per POWER/PowerPC spec
successor POWER5 NERFINISHED
supports 64-bit floating-point operations
64-bit integer operations
RISC (reduced instruction set computing) principles
simultaneous multithreading disabled (single-threaded per core)
targetMarket UNIX servers
enterprise servers
technologyNode 130 nm-class process (approximate)
usedIn IBM RS/6000 servers NERFINISHED
IBM pSeries servers NERFINISHED
vendor IBM Microelectronics NERFINISHED
wordSize 64-bit

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POWER3 successor POWER4