Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Sun's Rock goes 16 cores
The Rock processor - due out in 2008 - will have four cores or 16 cores, depending on how you slice the product. By that, we mean that Sun has divided the Rock CPU into four, separate cores each with four processing engines. Each core also has four FGUs (floating point/graphics units). Each processing engine will be able to crank two threads giving you - 4 x 4 x 2 - 32 threads per chip.Bad hardware comment: As you know Sun Rock is successor of current T1 (Niagara) processor.
It should be based on Ultrasparc architecture and shows the way where future clustered architecture will go, AMD has another but similar approach. It will use Clearspeed (or something similar) coprocessor, able to run 25 Gflops per chip even now. Here
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