11 October 2006

New Sun Processors - Fall Microprocessor Forum 2006

The Fall Microprocessor Forum 2006 is nearly over. Sun presented the new Niagara-2 and SPARC64-VI.


The Niagara-2
Niagara-2
will run twice as many threads parallel as it's predecessor. Each of it's 8 cores will handle 8 threads parallel. There will be perhaps a new Floating-Point/Graphics Unit (FGU) shared by the cores. The new Stream Processing Unit (SPU) will handle more algorithms (RC4, DES, 3DES, AES-128/192/256, MD5, SHA-1/256).


The SPARC64-VI
SPARC64-VI
is the dual-core version of SPARC64-V.

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