IBM Chip Claims To Crush Itanium to Bits
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| The p 570 can run SUSE Linux 10 SP1 or later and sometime in Q3 Red Hat
| 4.5 or later as well as AIX 5.2 or later.
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| The chip itself, which also itself comes in 3.5GHz and 4.2GHz versions,
| is supposed to be the first MPU that can calculate decimal
| floating-point arithmetic in hardware, a task generally done
| by software.
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