Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 27th Mar 2007 22:24 UTC
Sun Microsystems has launched a new business unit to sell its Sparc processors, a return to an idea it had dropped years ago. David Yen, currently executive vice president of storage but previously in charge of Sun's Sparc work, will lead the new group and retain his executive VP status, the company said Thursday.
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this makes niagara 2 a very solid SERVER chip against whatever intel-AMD throws at least for the incoming years. the embedded stuff makes the server design less complicated although it has the draw back of pluggability problems.
And who besides Sun is likely to buy a SERVER chip from Sun?
Sun can cell chips into the high end market, where there's no buyer, or the middle market, where they compete with Intel directly on Intel's strengths, or the low end market, which they know nothing about, and which is full of established players.
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i think Niagara 2 has:
- 8 core 64 threads .. Intel has fake 4 cores
- 2x 10 gbit ethernet embedded
- embedded Hardware encryption, random nuber generation (think of out of the box SSL acceleration)
- better power usage.
- embedded memory management. (ok AMD has it..)
this makes niagara 2 a very solid SERVER chip against whatever intel-AMD throws at least for the incoming years. the embedded stuff makes the server design less complicated although it has the draw back of pluggability problems.