Sun Microsystems Unveils Its Best Microprocessor Under GPL

The director of Sun Microsystems reported interesting news on his blog: a decision was made to unveil the architecture of the new eight-core UltraSPARC T2 processor under the open GPL. With a total thread frequency (eight threads on each of the eight cores) 89.6 GHz is the fastest processor on the market at the moment. Built-in PCI-Express and 10 Gb Ethernet interfaces, one FPU processor and a crypto processor per core, hardware support for ten ciphers, eight L2 memory banks with 4 MB and other built-in functions allow developers to call their brainchild a full-fledged “server the chip. "

Now, a competitor or anyone can legally start the production of exact copies, clones of this processor, also known under the code name Niagara 2. Moreover, Sun will only be glad to help independent manufacturers by providing them with all the necessary documentation, design files, test packages etc. All this will soon appear on the OpenSPARC.net website .