Wes Felter (wesley@felter.org) on 12/5/07 wrote:
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>David Kanter (dkanter@realworldtech.com) on 12/5/07 wrote:
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>>3. Rock - Scout threading, transaction memory and more
>>4. Niagara 3 - 16 cores this time around
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>From my reading of the program, papers 4.1 and 4.2 both sound like they're referring to Rock.
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Absolutely. Niagara 3 should be 16 core 128 thread at 45nm going by Sun's last hints on the subject.


>Looking at the non-processor papers, I can't believe the Teranetics 10GBASE-T PHY
>is 205 mm2. What does it mean when your Ethernet controller is bigger than your
>processor? I also note the 200mW 60GHz radio from GA Tech claims 15Gb/s (presumably
>at very short range), while Teranetics needs 10W to send 10Gb/s over copper. :-)