POWER3 - POWER3-II

POWER3-II

The POWER3-II was an improved POWER3 that increased the clock frequency to 450 MHz. It contains 23 million transistors and measured 170 mm2. It was fabricated in the IBM CMOS7S process, a 0.22 µm CMOS process with six levels of copper interconnect. It was succeeded by the POWER4 in 2001.

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