IBM is in no hurry to ship Power7 chips and the systems that use them. Not with so many other products being delayed. Intel’s “Tukwila” quad-core Itaniums have been pushed back until the first quarter of 2010 and probably will not show up in systems until the middle of 2010. While its eight-core “Nehalem EX” (sometimes called “Beckton”) Xeon-class processors are not going to be ready until late this year and probably not into systems until the first quarter of 2010.
IBM Lifts the Veil on Power7 Chips
July 21, 2009