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 Re: FW: Sun presents new T1 chip Dirk Moolman wrote: > For the full article, go to: > http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?s...718 18870S532 > > > Sun presents new T1 chip > > November 14 2005 at 06:42AM > > By Duncan Martell > > San Francisco - Sun Microsystems on Sunday announced its latest microprocessor that is more powerful than its predecessors, uses less electricity, and is one of the cornerstones of the computer maker's plan to return to sustainable revenue and profit growth. > > The UltraSparc T1, code-named Niagara, uses about 70 watts of electricity, closer to that of standard household light bulbs, and less than the 150 watts to 200 watts that most microprocessors in servers consume. > > The T1, which has eight processing "cores" on a single piece of silicon to give it more computing power, will be the brains of a line of forthcoming Sun Fire servers due by year's end and that run Sun's Solaris version of the Unix operating system. > sending to informix-list Yes, but the trick will be to find a database vendor that only charges you for 1 database license per CPU socket, instead of between 0.75 and 1.00 times the number of cores. ;-) Cheers, -- Mark. +----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+ | Mark D. Stock mailto:mdstock@MydasSolutions.com |//////// /| | |///// / //| | +-----------------------------------+//// / ///| | |We value your comments, which have |/// / ////| | |been recorded and automatically |// / /////| | |emailed back to us for our records.|/ ////////| +----------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------+ -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.3/171 - Release Date: 15/11/2005 sending to informix-list      |
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