Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 3rd Oct 2006 22:09 UTC
Sun Microsystems says its new UltraSparc T1 microprocessor, nicknamed Niagara, is creating a big splash. Sun was set to report Monday that 60 percent of the trial units of Niagara, an open-source product, have been ordered by new customers. This indicates that the company is gaining market share from rivals such as IBM's Power and Intel's Itanium high-performance microprocessor architectures.
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When you say "doesn't perform well", do you realize that for certain types of workloads that Niagara performs exceptionally well? It doesn't sound like you've made the effort to determine for which sort of workloads Niagara is a processor to consider and for which sorts a more traditional processor makes sense.
For more information on the types of workloads where the T1 makes sense and other advantages such as the radically reduced power requirements, see the FAQ at
http://www.sun.com/processors/throughput/faqs.html
and the whitepaper at
http://www.sun.com/processors/whitepapers/throughput_whitepaper.pdf
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2006-09-01
i wish someone would manufacture a chip and mobo (not to mention video card) that was built from open specifications. that way we wouldn't have to worry so much about the GPL3/DRM debate. too bad the niagara doesn't perform well. i was kind of getting my hopes up.