IBM (IBM) has come out with a new chip aimed at the server market. Oddly, it has not made more of a splash. The chip is called Power6. It has substantially more horsepower that Intel’s (INTC) best offering and, according to The Wall Street Journal it should allow companies to consolidate servers.

The announcement would seem important. The chip should make running enterprise server operations much more efficient. But shares in Intel and AMD (AMD) have not moved today. It may be that Wall St. does not think the chip has much of a market. Well, it sounds good anyway.

Douglas A. McIntyre