Here at AppleAddiction.net we like to make Thursdays thoroughly awesome. We understand that Fridays are usually the thoroughly awesome day but we are trying hard to spread the goodness. So, without further delay, the 6GHz Power CPU.

As you may or may not know IBM does alot more then making those cash register terminals you see at the store. They are acutally the industry leader when it comes to high performance computing. Don’t think IBM is doing it right? Well think about this. IBM makes the CPU’s used in the  XBOX 360, the PS3, and the Wii. Pretty impressive huh? But believe it or not, all of those CPU’s are actually on the lower end of what IBM’s CPUs are capable of.

Let me introduce you the the Power6. The Power6 is IBM’s current flagship model. It is a dual-core CPU clocked at 5GHz with over 790 million transistors per CPU and a 32MiB L3 Cache. The Power6 CPU is built on the RISC instruction set which is an open standard. The unique feature of this CPU is its ability to scale. You can order IBM servers with up to 64 cores(32 core max per CPU). IBM has gotten this CPU to reach speeds of up to 6GHz in its labs.

IBM is currentl developing the Power7 CPU. IBM’s road map shows it meeting silicone in 2010 with speeds up to 8GHz.

If you are interested in learning more about the Power CPU archeticture I suggest you check out Power.org or IBM’s Server Page.