The z196 microprocessor [1] is a chip made by IBM for their zEnterprise 196 and zEnterprise 114 mainframe computers, announced on July 22, 2010. [2] The processor was developed over a three-year time span by IBM engineers from Poughkeepsie, New York; Austin, Texas; and Böblingen, Germany at a cost of US$1.5 billion. [3]

z196处理器是一种四核芯片，在512平方毫米的面积上包含了14亿个晶体管。这种芯片是IBM在纽约州Poughkeepsie的工程师设计的，由IBM在纽约州 East Fishkil的300毫米晶圆加工厂采用45纳米SOI加工工艺生产的。

2011年10月21日 · The z196 is designed with improved scalability, performance, security, resiliency, availability, and virtualization. The z196 Model M80 provides up to 1.6 times the total system capacity of the z10™ EC Model E64, and all z196 models provide up to twice the available memory of the z10 EC.

Contract with IBM Corp. Second Edition (October 2011) This edition applies to the IBM zEnterprise 196 System. The changes to this edition are based on the System z hardware announcement dated July 12, 2011. Note: Before using this information and the product it supports, read the information in “Notices” on page xiii.

2010年9月8日 · IBM holds the record for the highest clock-speed CPU. The quad-core z196 runs at an astonishing 5.2GHz, taking the title from IBM's own 4.7GHz Power6 CPU. The new chip contains 1.4 billion transistors - 300 million more than Intel's six-core desktop CPUs - on a 512mm2 package made using a 45nm manufacturing-process.

2011年10月21日 · The z196 is designed with improved scalability, performance, security, resiliency, availability, and virtualization. The z196 Model M80 provides up to 1.6 times the total system capacity of the z10TM EC Model E64, and all z196 models provide up to twice the available memory of the z10 EC.

2010年8月24日 · This article consists of a collection of slides from the author's conference presentation on IBM's zEnterprise 196 processor. Some of the specific topics discussed include: the special features, system specifications, and system design for these products; system architectures; applications for use; platforms supported; processing capabilities ...

The new IBM zEnterprise 196 provides a impressive improvement of the workload driven per CPU, which makes it is very attractive for that workload. These results are comparable with other Linux® on IBM zEnterprise 196 results, for example the results shown at:

IBM发布了System zEnterprise 196大型机，搭载5.2GHz的z196处理器，是全球最快的微处理器。 该处理器采用45nm制程，拥有14亿个晶体管，包含64KB L1指令缓存，128KB L1数据缓存，以及1.5MB L2缓存。

2010年7月29日 · z196除了和之前的z系列主机一样提供了气冷配置外，还提供了水冷配置，提供更好的冷却效果和节省电力，以契合绿色数据中心的潮流。 z196主机在硬件配置方面比z10主机大幅提高，最高配置的z196主机其性能大约是z10最高配置的1.6倍。