Bangalore: IBM has revealed the world’s fastest microprocessor, ‘the dual-core POWER6’ in the Indian market.

Shashi B Mal, Director Systems and Technology Group, IBM India / South Asia said that the System p570 server and bladeCenter JS22, which is powered by this new chip, will also be available in the Indian market.

The Power6 is much speedier (4.7 GHZ) than its previous version Power5. It uses almost the same amount of electricity to run and cool. It also features industry leading virtualization potentialities. It is also the newest addition to IBM's 'Project Big Green'.

The new chip will help users either to raise their performance by 100%, or lower their power consumption by 50 percent.

Mr. Mal also said that in revenue terms, IBM is placed on the number one position in the Overall Server Market in the third quarter of the 2007.

The IT major has also reinstated itself in the X86 and non-Q86 market areas with 30% share during the same period.

While lecturing on the launching fnction, Jyoti Satyanathan, Vice President, IBM India/SA said, “The System p570 server and our blade servers powered by POWER6 processor are industry leading, benchmarked solutions that provide the best return on IT investments to organizations of all sizes.”