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By balancing execution speed, memory bandwidth and latency, and coherency overhead the Power7 architects have attempted to make possible systems that will scale up to 256 CPU cores without experiencing a sharp drop-off in performance-per-core. As such, the Power7 is not only a major stride in microprocessors for large systems, but a textbook on the lessons SOC designers will need to study in coming years.
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