Thursday, December 8, 2005

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Coming Vaguely Soon, Niagara II!

The Register has revealed that Sun will launch the successor to its UltraSparc T1 (Niagara) in 2007. The chip will have 8 cores, just like the current one, but it'll have 8 hardware threads per core, a floating point unit per core, and will operate in multi-processor configurations. It will be clocked at at least 1.4GHz, and manufactured with a 65nm process. This doesn't seem to be Rock, incidentally - Rock will launch separately. So Sun do have a plan, seemingly. I hope they succeed - who wants to live in an all-386 world? :)

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