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POWER6 µarch
General Info
Arch TypeCPU
DesignerIBM
ManufacturerIBM
Introduction2007
Process65 nm
Pipeline
TypeSuperscalar
SpeculativeYes
Reg RenamingYes
Succession

POWER6 is the Power microarchitecture for IBM's family of POWER6 processors that was introduced in 2007. POWER6 the successor to POWER5.

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codenamePOWER6 +
designerIBM +
first launched2007 +
full page nameibm/microarchitectures/power6 +
instance ofmicroarchitecture +
manufacturerIBM +
microarchitecture typeCPU +
namePOWER6 +
process65 nm (0.065 μm, 6.5e-5 mm) +