By: Foo_ (foo.delete@this.nomail.com), December 5, 2007 12:34 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
DaveC (davecuny@gmail.com) on 12/5/07 wrote:
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>Okay, now I'm confused. Sun just went crazy telling everyone and their brother
>that Niagara II needs every bit of 64 threads, and now Niagara III will go back
>to 32 threads? Is Niagara III just Rock mini?
The article says "Both processors feature 16 cores and Niagara 3 has 32 threads". Since Rock cores are supposed to be much fatter than Niagara's, perhaps Niagara is being drastically shrunk so as to efficiently target the low-end?
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>
>Okay, now I'm confused. Sun just went crazy telling everyone and their brother
>that Niagara II needs every bit of 64 threads, and now Niagara III will go back
>to 32 threads? Is Niagara III just Rock mini?
The article says "Both processors feature 16 cores and Niagara 3 has 32 threads". Since Rock cores are supposed to be much fatter than Niagara's, perhaps Niagara is being drastically shrunk so as to efficiently target the low-end?
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