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Sun Firms Up Its Sparc Chip Plans

Posted by timothy on from the high-grade-vapor dept.

delirium of disorder writes "Despite their recent focus on Opteron-based servers, Sun has not given up on SPARC. Niagara , the latest development in the SPARC line, will have 8 cores and according to this article will consume about 56 watts and have performance comparable to a four-way SMP Xeon system. New Xeons will consume hundreds of watts per processor."

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  1. Re:SPARC has always been by unfall · · Score: 3, Informative

    While the registers visible are limited to 16 in 64bit mode there are way more registers available to the cpu via register renaming. It does add a bunch of transistors but its no longer killing the performance. More AMD64 Info

  2. Key Meeting Transcript by superpulpsicle · · Score: 3, Funny

    Exec: What's today?

    Employee: Monday.

    Exec: Oh, we need to launch Ultrasparc as the top processor! What's tomorrow?

    Employee: Tuesday

    Exec: Oh we really need to launch AMD Opteron as the top processor. What's the day after?

    Employee: Wednesday.

    Exec: We need to make StorageTek and tape libraries our key future. What's the day after?

    Employee: Saturday.

    Exec: Great, I got a golfing trip.