Added to the directory: Thu, 23 Oct, 2003. Source: AcesHardware.
Quote:With the desktop getting all the attention lately following the introduction of the Athlon 64 and the anticipated release of Prescott, we thought we'd take a moment to overview three server processors presented at this year's Microprocessor Forum: Sun's UltraSPARC IV, IBM's POWER5, and Fujitsu's SPARC64 VI. Multiple cores is becoming a trend in next-generation processors, especially in the server space. It's also something all three of these chips have in common. The POWER5 is a second-generation dual-core processor, and IBM has now taken things a step further with the addition of 2-way SMT to each core. Sun's UltraSPARC IV is a transition of the current UltraSPARC III to a dual-core implementation that seeks to double the capacity of the company's current line of servers by maintaining compatibility with current single-core chips. Fujitsu's SPARC64 VI is another single to dual-core transition, albeit one that's a bit further off. Fujitsu seems to be looking to leverage 0.09µ manufacturing to incorporate a large 6 MB L2 cache on-die and ramp clockspeeds up past 2 GHz.
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