POWER4 microprocessor



The circuit and physical design of the POWER4 microprocessor

FREE-DOWNLOAD [PDF] from liu.eduJD Warnock – 2002
The IBM POWER4 processor is a 174-million- transistor chip that runs at a clock frequency of
greater than 1.3 GHz. It contains two microprocessor cores, high-speed buses, and an on-chip
memory subsystem. The complexity and size of POWER4, together with its high operating