DB2 with BLU Acceleration deeply integrates innovative new techniques for defining and
processing column-organized tables that speed read-mostly Business Intelligence queries by …

The POWER8™ processor is the latest RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer)
microprocessor from IBM. It is fabricated using the company's 22-nm Silicon on Insulator (SOI) …

The IBM POWER® processor is the dominant reduced instruction set computing microprocessor
in the world today, with a rich history of implementation and innovation over the last 20 …

The IBM POWER6™ microprocessor core includes two accelerators for increasing
performance of specific workloads. The vector multimedia extension (VMX) provides a vector …

The design of a 4-way SIMD streaming data processor emphasizes achievable performance
in area and power. Software controls data movement and instruction flow, and improves …

This paper describes an 11 FO4 streaming data processor in the IBM 90-nm SOI-low-k process.
The dual-issue, four-way SIMD processor emphasizes achievable performance per area …

This paper gives an overview of the latest member of the POWER™ processor family,
POWER7™. Eight quad-threaded cores, operating at frequencies up to 4.14 GHz, are integrated …

Built-in self test is a major part of the manufacturing test procedure for the cell processor.
However, pseudo random patterns cause a high switching activity which is not effectively …

This paper presents a survey of some of the most aggressive custom designs for CMOS
processor products and prototypes in IBM. We argue that microprocessor performance growth, …

To address the challenges in microprocessor designs beyond a gigahertz, an instruction
window buffer (IWB) was designed. The IWB implements the processor parts for renaming, …