Sun tapes out 64-thread T2 processor

Sledgehammer70Sledgehammer70 California Icrontian
edited April 2006 in Science & Tech
The new processor, code-named Niagara-II, had its first production run in March and apparently showed few bugs, which should allow Sun to clean up the design in a matter of a few months. While the company did not announce any details on a commercial launch date for the CPU, industry sources speculated that Sun will be aiming for an introduction sometime in 2007.
The clock speed of the T2 is still a mystery, but it is expected likely that Sun will not increase the current maximum of 1.2 GHz by much in order to stay in the T1's thermal design envelope of 79 watts. A transition from a 90 to 65 nm structure, however, could enable Sun to bump the clock by a couple hundred MHz without having to adjust the chip's thermal design power rating.
Source: Tons Hardware
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