Sun boots server with Niagara II chip

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How could punny SUN pull off a very radical chip in

such as short time and with the little resources they have, even though the behemoth Intel, to produce a decent processor (Itanimu-2) it took them Soooo Looooooongggg (like another looooomghhhhorrrrnnnnn nn n n ...)???? Where is Itanium-3 ? And most redicuously, Intel pretty mauch cancelled IA64 and made a U-turn to start .... "improving" their Xeons line?

I have to give it to SUN, they pulled off very decent AMD based systems and they didn't give up on their own "baby" but they kept working on their vision for a multi-core, CMT and low power processor.

Now SUN needs to improve their proc to mem designs. They should be following the lead of SGI (NUMA link 4) or even something close to what CRAY is doing with their interconnects....

I am curious to see overall Int and FP performance of the T2 and how it would stack up against Power6. I don't care about woodcrests ofcourse. Woodcrest competes nicely with Opterons but cannot go play with the big boys yet....

I guess Intel woke up and smell the donuts that excessive middle-management is not maybe the "emphasis" for a cutting-edge company... that is only god for them.

It is getting interesting again

Posted by: michael_t   Posted on: 07/17/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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