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UltraSPARC IV Processor Architecture Overview
White Papers This white paper provides an overview of Sun's UltraSPARC IV processor. The UltraSPARC IV processor is among the first Chip Multithreading (CMT) processors that follows Sun’s Throughput Computing strategy and continues the tradition of binary code...
[May 5, 2004, 1:03]
Sun Brings UltraSparc IV To Low-end Servers
News The computer maker got that ball rolling with its UltraSparc IV chip, a dual-core processor that came out in March and now ships in about 50 percent of Sun's high-end Sun Fire servers, according to Sun executives who spoke at an informal press...
[September 13, 2004, 8:00]
Sun Fire Enterprise Servers And The UltraSPARC IV Processor
White Papers More than just a vision, Sun is now delivering on throughput computing with the new Sun Fire nE2900, E4900, E6900, E20K and E25K servers running the proven and robust Solaris Operating System.
[July 1, 2004, 3:00]
UltraSparc's Future Laid Bare
News Sun is expected to revamp its core Unix server line on Tuesday with the debut of its high-end UltraSparc IV+ processor, ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com has learned. The UltraSparc IV+, code-named Panther, will be available in midrange models...
[September 15, 2005, 10:05]
Sun Speeds UltraSparc Amid Analyst Concerns
News Sun announced faster UltraSparc IV+ processors on Tuesday, just in time to address analyst concerns this week that the company's high-end servers had a sour quarter. The UltraSparc IV+ has led something of a comeback at Sun, with the company...
[April 4, 2007, 9:32]
Sun Says New Chip Doubles Speed
News Sun Microsystems will announce on Monday that its upcoming UltraSparc IV processor will outperform its predecessor by a factor of 1.6 to 2, providing more competition to Intel, IBM, Advanced Micro Devices and others.
[October 13, 2003, 8:40]
Sun Talks Up Another Chip
News Although barely finished boasting that its newly announced UltraSparc IV processor nearly doubles server performance, Sun Microsystems hinted on Wednesday that the chip's successor will do the same again.
[February 12, 2004, 14:05]
Sun's UltraSparc Doubles Down For Power
News Sun Microsystems' UltraSparc IV chip will debut in the second half of 2003 with two processors etched into the same slice of silicon, a technique that packs more computing punch, a company executive said on Monday.
[December 18, 2002, 8:48]
Sun Doubles Server Speeds
News Sun Microsystems will detail its high-end UltraSparc IV+ processor Tuesday, a chip code-named "Panther" that will roughly double the speed of servers using the current processor. Like the current UltraSparc IV, the UltraSparc IV+ will have two...
[October 5, 2004, 15:15]
Sun Ditches UltraSparc V And Gemini
News Under the new strategy, Sun will concentrate on powering its servers with derivatives of the UltraSparc IV, which came out earlier this year, for the near term. One coming derivative, currently known as the UltraSparc IV+ will have an integrated...
[April 12, 2004, 10:15]
Sun Chips Hit A Snag
News David Yen, executive vice president of Sun's microprocessor group, said at a meeting with reporters on Tuesday that Sun's UltraSparc IV processor will emerge in the first quarter of 2004, rather than late 2003, as Sun had said earlier.
[June 5, 2003, 7:39]
Solaris 10 Heads For Launch Pad
News Sun touted the hundreds of new Solaris features at its quarterly product launch last week, which also included the launch of UltraSparc IV and Opteron servers. Solaris 10 is set for launch in the third quarter, on Sun's own UltraSparc IV, Intel x86...
[February 16, 2004, 13:10]
Sun Ropes In Oracle To Push High-end Servers
News Oracle's Enterprise Edition database software will be an option when customers buy the four-processor Sun Fire V490 or higher-end servers using the UltraSparc IV or IV+ processors. The partnership, which also involves joint marketing and...
[January 11, 2006, 13:30]
Sun To Push UltraSparc V Past 3GHz
News UltraSparc IV then will debut at 1.2GHz and run to 2GHz. Sun's current UltraSparc III processors arrived much more slowly than the company had hoped, with consequent delays for the UltraSparc IV and V successors.
[June 25, 2002, 9:37]
Sun, HP Take On Squadron
News Sun will overhaul its systems with the new UltraSparc IV processor "right around the end of the year," beginning with the top-end Sun Fire 15K that currently has 72 UltraSparc III processors for business customers, said Clark Masters, executive...
[May 16, 2003, 12:16]
Sun To Supercharge UltraSparc With Afara Acquisition
News Yen said the UltraSparc IV will be manufactured using tiny circuitry built on a 130-nanometre manufacturing process, while UltraSparc will use a 90-nanometre process. As reported, Sun's coming UltraSparc IV processor will run at speeds between...
[June 26, 2002, 9:43]
Sun Lights Chip Roadmap
News In the pipeline Sun disclosed several specific processor plans at the conference Tuesday: The UltraSparc IV processor, due later this year, has two cores etched onto the same slice of silicon. Gemini, like UltraSparc IV and the newest UltraSparc...
[February 26, 2003, 9:28]
HP Shuffles Server Chips
News Sun, however, calls its dual-core UltraSparc IV a single processor, preferring to emphasise that its chip can simultaneously execute two instruction sequences, called threads. At the same time as HP's new servers are emerging, Sun Microsystems also...
[February 10, 2004, 10:45]
Sun Woos Pundits With Fresh Technology
News It makes the (forthcoming) UltraSparc IV and V look like footnotes in Sun's history. Yen said Sun is better positioned to accommodate a technology such as Niagara because Solaris can manage the schedules of more than 200 threads today -- the number...
[February 25, 2003, 7:33]
Sun-Fujitsu Collaboration Plan Slips
News The company underestimated UltraSparc IV+ systems demand in the last quarter of 2005, and partly blamed this underestimation for its poor results that quarter. Although Olympus is a different design than the Sun UltraSparc IV+ processor it's...
[January 26, 2006, 10:20]
