The POWER2 processor
Jama Barreh, S. Dhawan, T. N. Hicks, D. J. Shippy · 2002
The IBM POWER2 is a second-generation, multi-chip superscalar RISC processor. It provides dual branch processing units, dual fixed-point units, dual floating-point units, and advanced superscalar techniques. It is capable of executing 6 instructions per cycle and 8 operations per cycle. The processor also provides large caches, long cache lines, and high bandwidth buses to memory and I/O.>