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Title: UltraSPARC t2 now open source
Post by: downix on December 13, 2007, 04:19:30 AM

Awesomeness (http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/12/2250242)

Title: Re: UltraSPARC t2 now open source
Post by: rkauer on December 13, 2007, 04:38:48 AM

 Cool! 8-)

 How about Freescale give the 68060 code away? :roll:

Title: Re: UltraSPARC t2 now open source
Post by: jlariv8957 on December 13, 2007, 08:45:12 AM

AFAIK, the sparc architecture is just a specification. Since sparc architecture was made open source everybody can make is own SPARC processor.

Very interesting as SPARC processor is far away beyond X86 processors: 64bits for more than 10 years,the last I've seen had 8 cores with 4 threads witch means 32 simulatenous tasks...

Title: Re: UltraSPARC t2 now open source
Post by: downix on December 13, 2007, 09:45:15 AM

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jlariv8957 wrote:
AFAIK, the sparc architecture is just a specification. Since sparc architecture was made open source everybody can make is own SPARC processor.

Very interesting as SPARC processor is far away beyond X86 processors: 64bits for more than 10 years,the last I've seen had 8 cores with 4 threads witch means 32 simulatenous tasks...

The SPARC architecture has been open for over a decade.  This is a specific implimentation of that architecture, the most advanced one to date from Sun.  And the 8 cores w/ 4 threads is the T1.  The T2 doubled the number of simultaneous threads, giving you 64 simultaneous threaded tasks.