UltraSPARC T2: The world's fastest commodity microprocessor from Sun

Filed in archive Business on September 10, 2007

As of now the market for commodity silicon and its powered devices runs into billions of dollars and Sun wants to milk it quite well. Sun has gone ahead and unveiled the world's fastest commodity microprocessor. Dubbed as UltraSPARC T2, its industry's first volume processor having eight cores and eight threads per core. If you are a staunch believer in quality then this microprocessor delivers highest energy efficiency per thread in the whole industry.




Another commendable thing about UltraSPARC T2 is that it is also the first processor in the industry which brings together the major functions of multiple systems and integration of these elements on a single piece of silicon increases performance and brings down costs. It even improves energy efficiency and reliability making it a better choice for storage devices to performance computing to networking equipments. In terms of eco performance too it scores since it uses CoolThreads chip multithreading technology which brings down the power consumption bringing it among one of the lowest power consumption categories leading to improved efficiency and green computing. Companies will certainly gain as a result since they would be saving on power, space and cooling expense. All those looking to attain efficiency should opt for this processor since it offers more consolidation and virtualization flexibility as compared to any other processor in its class.