Extreme Multithreading on a Chip

Posted by chrisd on Monday March 24, 2003 @02:08PM from the less-chips-more-mips dept.

kid writes "There's an interesting interview with Dr. Marc Tremblay at Ace's Hardware. Dr. Tremblay is a distinguished engineer at Sun and the co-architect of the UltraSPARC processor. He is currently working on a processor that is claimed to deliver 30 times the performance of current CPUs utilizing an agressive multi-core/multi-threaded architecture. He talks about upcoming highly multithreaded CPUs from Sun as well as a wide range of problems facing today's CPU designers, from branch mispredictions to DRAM latency/bandwidth and power dissipation, and the ways in which he is working on solving them."

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eXtreme multithreading? by ObviousGuy · 2003-03-24 14:11 · Score: 2, Funny

Better wear a helmet and knee and elbow pads.

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Cluster? by dacarr · 2003-03-24 15:42 · Score: 2, Funny

Imagine a beowulf cluster of these!

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