Sun’s Niagara chip ready for test production
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“Sun Microsystems Inc. has taken a step toward producing the first of its next generation of ‘throughput computing’ processors. The company has completed the initial design of its first such processor, code named Niagara, and has now begun the process of producing the first prototypes of the chip, a Sun spokesperson confirmed Wednesday….Designed to be a network-intensive processor with on-chip networking and security capabilities, Niagara will have eight processor cores, each of which will be capable of running four series of application instructions, called threads, simultaneously. ‘It really is taking the idea of multicore multithreading to a much more radical approach than everybody else,’ said [Kevin] Krewell [editor-in-chief of The Microprocessor Report], who predicts that the chip will have appeal to users running multithreaded Web services applications.”
