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Sun Plans Security Coprocessor For New Ultrasparc

Posted by Soulskill on from the a-good-processor-knows-how-to-delegate dept.

angry tapir writes "At the Hot Chips conference at Stanford University, Sun presented plans for a security accelerator chip that it said would reduce encryption costs for applications such as VoIP calls and online banking Web sites. The coprocessor will be included on the same silicon as Rainbow Falls, the code name for the follow-on to Sun's multi-threaded Ultrasparc T2 processor."

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  1. Difference from the T1/T2 on-chip cryptography? by BabyDave · · Score: 3, Interesting

    As I understand it, the T1 and T2 chips both have on-chip crypto accelerators (one per core) already - what's the difference with the Rainbow Falls version?