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Sun To Release 8-Core Niagara 2 Processor

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the screw-everything-we're-going-eight-cores dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Sun Microsystems is set to announce its eight-core Niagara 2 processor next week. Each core supports eight threads, so the chip handles 64 simultaneous threads, making it the centerpiece of Sun's "Throughput Computing" effort. Along with having more cores than the quads from Intel and AMD, the Niagara 2 have dual, on-chip 10G Ethernet ports with cryptographic capability. Sun doesn't get much processor press, because the chips are used only in its own CoolThreads servers, but Niagara 2 will probably be the fastest processor out there when it's released, other than perhaps the also little-known 4-GHz IBM Power 6."

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  1. low...... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    so is it only late at night that all the low UID /. people come out or something? Or do you guys hide from all the retards during the day?

  2. Relevant by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    They still make Sun processors?