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cores, and its physical packaging is identical to the UltraSPARC III with the exception of one pin. The UltraSPARC III cores were improved in a variety of ways. Instruction fetch, store bandwidth, and data prefetching were optimized. The
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manufacturing process. The initial speed of the UltraSPARC IV+ was 1.5 GHz, 0.3 GHz less than the intended 1.8 GHz. In April, 2007 it was increased to 2.1 GHz. It contains 295 million transistors.
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The UltraSPARC IV+, released in mid-2005, is also a dual-core design, featuring enhanced processor cores and an on-chip L2 cache. It is fabricated on a 90
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microprocessors. Of the four original designs in the initiative, two reached production: the UltraSPARC IV and the UltraSPARC T1. Whereas the
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Servers using the UltraSPARC IV were released in September 2004. The UltraSPARC IV+ was released in Sun servers in September 2005.
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The UltraSPARC IV was the first multi-core SPARC processor, released in March, 2004. Internally, it implements two modified
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systems all use UltraSPARC IV and IV+ processors. These systems range from 4 to 72 processor sockets (8 to 144 cores).
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The UltraSPARC IV was developed as part of Sun's Throughput Computing initiative, which included the UltraSPARC V
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Servers powered by the UltraSPARC IV+ processor were well received, allowing Sun to regain revenue lead in the
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microprocessor in early 2004. It was instead succeeded by the Fujitsu-designed
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Krewell, Kevin (10 November 2003). "UltraSPARC IV Mirrors Predecessor".
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and measures 22.1 mm by 16.1 mm (356 mm). It was
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Krewell, Kevin (18 January 2005). "Best Servers of 2004".
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Sun Microsystems
Texas Instruments
CPU
clock rate
Instruction set
SPARC V9
Cores
UltraSPARC III
SPARC64 VI
microprocessors
Sun Microsystems
Texas Instruments
SPARC V9
instruction set architecture
UltraSPARC T1
SPARC64 VI
UltraSPARC T1
block multithreading
UltraSPARC III
floating-point
adder
not a number
underflow
exceptions
transistors
fabricated
Texas Instruments
nanometer
Sun Fire

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