Is the Sparc T4 Too Little Too Late?

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday September 28, 2011 @06:47AM from the intel-crushes-all dept.

packetrat writes "Ars Technica reports on Monday's launch of the Sparc T4, and how it finally (nearly 20 years after everyone else) brings out-of-order execution to Sun Sparc ... er, Oracle Sparc. But the benchmarks that Oracle has thrown up (surprise) are a smokescreen for the fact that the processor is still woefully behind state of the art, and it serves mostly as a placeholder to keep the remaining Sparc user base from defecting to Intel — even as Oracle is selling systems based on Intel and Oracle Linux. With the right benchmarks, my minivan outperforms a Maserati. The T4 is a minivan."

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Old news by sunderland56 · 2011-09-28 06:52 · Score: 4, Funny

Isn't this a repeat from yesterday?

Or are we going to see this story once per core?
1. Re:Old news by monkeyhybrid · 2011-09-28 07:01 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Yesterday's was the final T4 post, but it's out of order.
Re:SPARC is dead by Anonymous Coward · 2011-09-28 07:44 · Score: 0, Funny

I don't mean to be a know-it-all, but I can't help but correct your grammar error:
Your sentence should read:
"Sorry, for all intensive purposes..."
Don't feel bad, it is a common mistake among so-called "educated" people.