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UltraSparc III to break 1GHz barrier
News Sun Microsystems will refresh its workstation lineup with a 1.05GHz version of the UltraSparc III processor due early next year, the company said on Monday. UltraSparc III, introduced more than a year ago, is the foundation of a new line of servers...
[November 20, 2001, 11:34]
Sun's UltraSparc III charges up
News More than a year after its introduction, Sun Microsystems' UltraSparc III chip passed a key milestone, becoming the most widely shipped Sun processor. In the past quarter, for the first time, we are shipping more UltraSparc III than UltraSparc II...
[January 17, 2002, 13:53]
Glitch discovered in UltraSparc III
News Sun Microsystems has found a problem with computers using its new UltraSparc III processor, the company acknowledged Wednesday. But Sun already has had some problems with its new UltraSparc III chip, which is critical to its effort to keep IBM...
[April 5, 2001, 8:36]
Sun UltraSparc chips reach 1.2GHz
News Sun Microsystems will announce its highest-end microprocessor to date on Wednesday, a 1.2GHz UltraSparc III that consumes less power than its predecessors. The new UltraSparc III processor, which is expected to be available within 120 days...
[September 18, 2002, 7:54]
Sun roots out server glitch
News The problem, now patched, afflicts several servers using the 900MHz UltraSparc III processors, Sun said in an advisory posted in January and updated on Thursday. Sun started investigating the problem in September 2002 when it discovered more 900MHz...
[March 26, 2003, 7:47]
Sun lets 'Starkitty' out of the bag
News The machine, with as many as 52 900MHz UltraSparc III processors, 288GB of memory and a price tag of about $750,000 (£525,000), is half the size of Sun's top-end Sun Fire 15K "Starcat" system, which the company introduced in late 2001.
[April 10, 2002, 9:25]
Sun pins hopes on Cherrystone servers
News Sun has released numerous servers based on its newer UltraSparc III processor, but the four-processor Cherrystone system is arriving later than hoped. As earlier reported, the Sun Fire V480, with up to four 900MHz UltraSparc III processors, is a...
[June 18, 2002, 9:02]
Low-end Sun server aimed at Intel
News The server seller will begin selling its UltraSparc III-based V880, which has been code-named "Daktari," an important upgrade to the popular E450 that will help spur adoption of the new chip and its accompanying operating system, Solaris 8.
[October 29, 2001, 10:52]
Sun powers up low-end UltraSparc
News The V840, which had been code-named Cherrystone, comes with 1.05GHz UltraSparc III processors instead of 900MHz models. Sun's 1.05GHz UltraSparc III processors aren't its fastest. But the California-based company still prefers to sell machines that...
[August 4, 2003, 11:35]
Sun says new chip doubles speed
News UltraSparc IV packs two UltraSparc III processor cores onto a single slice of silicon. The latest performance figure compares computing tasks running on a 1.2GHz UltraSparc IV and a 1.2GHz UltraSparc III, Ingram said.
[October 13, 2003, 8:40]
Sun packs in UltraSparcs
News UltraSparc IV system boards can run side-by-side in the same servers as the older UltraSparc III boards. The UltraSparc IV systems are the first major processor overhaul since the company introduced its UltraSparc III line in late 2003.
[February 10, 2004, 8:10]
Sun to push UltraSparc V past 3GHz
News According to a presentation Yen is expected to make Tuesday, the UltraSparc III will reach 1.2GHz, a smidgen faster than the 1.05GHz products expected soon from Sun. Sun's current UltraSparc III processors arrived much more slowly than the company...
[June 25, 2002, 9:37]
Sun talks up another chip
News One method of speeding cache memory is to include it directly in a chip's silicon, but Sun's current UltraSparc III and IV rely on a separate module. Sun's UltraSparc IV combines two UltraSparc III processors on a single slice of silicon, a so...
[February 12, 2004, 14:05]
Sun taps new source for low-end chips
News Higher-end Sun products use the UltraSparc IIs and IIi chips, which have more features, but are more expensive to manufacture. Sun is in the midst of a transition to the newer UltraSparc III chip. Sun has had problems in getting the new UltraSparc...
[May 4, 2001, 10:35]
IBM confronts Sun in Unix face-off
News Sun's UltraSparc III chips currently run at 750MHz, but the company hopes to introduce in the summer a 900MHz version originally due by March. The new models arrive after new systems from Sun using its UltraSparc III chip and price cuts on older...
[April 23, 2001, 12:45]
US Report: Analysts sceptical of Sun's claims for future chip
News Linley Gwennap, editorial director of the US Microprocessor journal, Microprocessor Report, says that when compared against the UltraSPARC III, due to sample at year's end, the numbers show performance improvements that are "completely...
[August 5, 1998, 7:24]
Sun chips hit a snag
News Sun's current UltraSparc III was a late arrival, and the company must regain lost ground, Krewell said. They know they screwed up on UltraSparc III, and they've got to play catch-up," he said. UltraSparc IV, built on a process with 130-nanometre...
[June 5, 2003, 7:39]
UltraSparc's future laid bare
News Because the UltraSparc IV+ uses the same interface and won't run any hotter than its predecessors, it can be plugged into the same systems that currently employ UltraSparc IV and UltraSparc III. The UltraSparc IV was Sun's first dual-core chip...
[September 15, 2005, 10:05]
Sun ditches UltraSparc V and Gemini
News They were very late with the UltraSparc III. It consists of two UltraSparc III cores. Sun has stopped work on the UltraSparc V, a server chip that was supposed to come out late next year, and Gemini, a dual-core chip for Web servers, a company...
[April 12, 2004, 10:15]
TI to outsource chip production
News As it turned out, the company has just finished introducing its new UltraSparc III-based servers. Sun's UltraSparc III processors, the fastest of which run at 1.05GHz, are built on a manufacturing process that has a feature size of 150 nanometres.
[May 20, 2002, 11:10]
