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10th December, 2006, 07:29 PM
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| Sun puts 16 cores on its 'Rock' chip Sun Microsystems, already an aggressive advocate of multicore processing, will try to stay a step ahead of the game by putting 16 cores in its high-end Rock chip. With overheating capping chip speeds, chipmakers have been scrambling to improve performance instead by packing multiple processing engines onto a single slice of silicon. Sun got an early start with its UltraSparc T1 "Niagara" processor, which has eight cores, and it looks like Rock will keep the company a step ahead of the competition. Read more on the Front Page: http://www.aoaforums.com/frontpage/content/view/1468/2/
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10th December, 2006, 09:05 PM
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| Something tells me that this won't be an x86 processor. Sun has been up to stupid legal actions against rivals for years. This is a welcome step in the right direction, 'bout time McNealy.
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