Sun released the worlds fastest production multi-core chip.Codenamed Niagra II , the multi-core data churner is now known officially as UltraSPARC T2. The Niagra 2 is very similar to the Niagra having same number of cores.The cool features present in Niagra II gives it an interesting status.

The thread count has been increased to 64 and floating point unit for each core.The UltraSPARC T2 is clocked at 1.4 GHz.In addition to those 64 threads feature Sun has integrated an on-chip 10Gb NIC [tag]LAN[/tag] in it ,eight lanes of [tag]PCi Express[/tag] I/O and has four memory controllers.

[tag]Sun[/tag]’s UltraSPARC T2 isn’t really faster like they are claiming and there are many [tag]processor[/tag]s , some overclocked , giving much more performance than this.But the one important factor that Sun’s pointing out is UltraSPARC T2’s high power efficiency.They are claiming 2 watt / thread power usage

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