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Sun Microsystems,
Inc. today announced two advances that demonstrate its
continued leadership in chip multi-threading (CMT) and commitment to advancing
the SPARC® architecture. Sun successfully completed the tapeout (initial
design completion for first fabrication) of its new "Rock" processor and
announced that it's enhancing the performance, expandability and performance
per watt of its Sun Fire(TM) T2000 servers.
Sun Microsystems,
Inc. today announced two advances that demonstrate its
continued leadership in chip multi-threading (CMT) and commitment to advancing
the SPARC® architecture. Sun successfully completed the tapeout (initial
design completion for first fabrication) of its new "Rock" processor and
announced that it's enhancing the performance, expandability and performance
per watt of its Sun Fire(TM) T2000 servers.
"SPARC CMT and the Solaris(TM) Operating System (OS) are the foundations
of Sun's business today and in the future," said John Fowler, executive vice
president, Systems, Sun Microsystems. "The UltraSPARC® T1 chip put us way
ahead of the competition in multi-core, multi-threaded processing, and
generated tremendous interest in our SPARC products among customers. Now with
Rock we're expanding CMT to the high-end. We'll be able to deliver the most
optimized platform for high-end Solaris based applications, and offer
industry-changing improvements in price performance across the entire
datacenter."
Sun's New CMT Products
Rock and the enhanced Sun Fire T2000 servers continue Sun's leadership in
CMT.
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Rock: The "Rock" processor is Sun's next-generation, high-end SPARC CMT
product line, and its design is focused on delivering the performance
and energy efficiency of CMT technology to high-end systems. The
successful completion of this critical milestone helps keep Sun on track
to deliver the first Rock-based systems in the second half of calendar
2008.
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Sun Fire T2000 enhancements: Sun is enhancing the performance,
expandability and performance per watt of its Sun Fire T2000 servers
with support for 64 GB of memory and the new faster 1.4GHz UltraSPARC T1
processor. By offering 64 GB of memory in both existing and new systems,
Sun is able to improve performance of memory-bound applications by up to
20 percent while enabling the T2000 servers to handle larger workloads
and greater levels of application consolidation.
The 1.4GHz UltraSPARC T1 processor has already demonstrated up to
30 percent higher throughput than the existing 1.2GHz processor, while
also extending Sun's leadership in datacenter performance and efficiency
by delivering 2x higher performance, 5x higher performance per watt and
9x SWaP than current competitive systems. These enhancements enable
customers to break through the power, cooling and space limitations that
blight many datacenters today, to serve millions of new customers while
saving millions of dollars in operational costs.
It is important to note that Sun is also making great progress on the
Niagara 2 silicon, and is on target to deliver systems in the second half of
calendar 2007.
Sun's CMT Leadership
In 2006, the SPARC product line enjoyed significantly increased revenue
growth with the UltraSPARC T1. A year after the launch, the UltraSPARC T1-
based T1000 and T2000 servers, running the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS),
now represent more than $100 million in revenue per fiscal quarter for Sun,
and have played a key role in helping Sun achieve three straight quarters of
server revenue growth, according to the most recent IDC Worldwide Quarterly
Server Tracker.
Sun continues to invest aggressively in CMT innovation, and remains on
track to deliver the benefits of CMT technology across its entire product line
-- from entry level to high end -- in the second half of calendar 2008.
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