16 Cores to Freedom
Not to much else to say on this beside the fact that Sun will be coming out with the 16 core chip ("Rock" processor) around the same time as competitors will be releasing their competition for the Niagra and Niagra 2 with 8 cores.These chips are expected to, unlike the Niagra, perform well on a per process basis as well pushing through the overall load in short order. The Niagra itself performed well on the long run, but individuals processes took a comparatively long time to other x86 chips.
It is also going ahead with out-of-order retirement, which in essence guesses at what a logic process will come up with later on down the stack of processes and actually commits that to memory, if when called it turns out to be wrong it goes back to the state pre-commitment and re-runs it. This is a wide variation from Niagra and is more in the path of Intel and AMD, while a step farther beyond their speculative and out-of-order processes.
Labels: 16 core processor, amd, intel, processor, sparc, sun, sun niagra, sun rock
posted by Kombucha @ 12/08/2006 05:49:00 PM
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