Sun's UltraSPARC III Processor Wins Prestigious Microprocessor Industry Award.Business Editors PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 22, 2001 Sun's 64-bit Processor Honored as Best Server/Workstation Processor in MicroDesign Resources' Microprocessor Report 2001 Analyst's Choice Award Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , Inc. (Nasdaq:SUNW SUNW Sun Microsystems, Inc (former stock symbol; now JAVA) SUNW Stanford University Network Workstation (Sun Microsystems, Inc) ) today announced that its 64-bit UltraSPARC(TM)III processor received MicroDesign Resources' (MDR MDR, n See multidrug resistance. MDR, n the abbreviation for minimum daily requirement, specifically the Minimum Daily Requirements for Specific Nutrients compiled by the United States Food and Drug Administration. ) Microprocessor Report 2001 Analyst's Choice Award in the Best Server/Workstation processor category. Sun Microsystems accepted the award at MDR's second annual awards ceremony, Thursday, Jan. 18 at the Hyatt Saint Claire in San Jose San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. The MDR awards confirm the top technology picks from the Microprocessor Report's analyst team, recognizing excellence in technology innovation, design and implementation. The Sun Microsystems, Inc. UltraSPARC III processor won first place for Best Server/Workstation Processor in a competitive field of nominees which also included Intel's Itanium, IBM's Freeway for eServer z900, and Intel's Pentium III The successor to the Pentium II from Intel. Introduced in the spring of 1999 at 500 MHz, the Pentium III architecture was similar to the Pentium II with the addition of 70 new instructions optimized for multimedia (see SSE). Xeon processors. "The prestigious MDR awards celebrate the companies and products that shaped the electronics industry in 2000. Microprocessors for servers and workstations do the heavy lifting in this industry. The immense processing requirements placed on this class of processors require them to incorporate many advanced features," said Max Baron, editor-in-chief and principal analyst, Microprocessor Report. "Because of its advanced multiprocessing architecture, we gave the Sun UltraSPARC III processor the Microprocessor Report 2001 Analyst's Choice Award for Best Server/Workstation Processor." "Sun is very proud to receive this prestigious award from MicroDesign Resources for the UltraSPARC III processor," said John Shoemaker John Shoemaker (born August 18 1956 in Chillicothe, OH USA) is a former minor league baseball player and current manager of the Double-A Jacksonville Suns. Shoemaker attended Waverly High School and Miami University before he was drafted in the 35th round of the 1977 MLB , executive vice president, System Products Group, Sun Microsystems, Inc. "The UltraSPARC III processor is the cornerstone of Sun's next generation network computing architecture, designed to meet the demands of the Net Effect. MicroDesign Resources' recognition further validates the direction Sun has taken in 64-bit computing for advanced multiprocessing." "The 64-bit UltraSPARC III microprocessor is one of the most advanced processors available today," said Anant Agrawal, vice president and general manager, Processor Products Group, Sun Microsystems, Inc. "We congratulate our design team for their industry-leading work on this complex 64-bit processor and are especially honored to have gained this recognition among top industry analysts." The UltraSPARC III microprocessor comprises 29 million transistors and features include embedded memory controller and 9.6 Gigabyte-per-second address bus for massive scalability; support for a large 8 Megabyte Error Checking and Correcting (ECC (1) (Error-Correcting Code) A type of memory that corrects errors on the fly. See ECC memory. (2) (Elliptic Curve Cryptography) A public key cryptography method that provides fast decryption and digital signature processing. )-protected external cache; and a new error isolation and correction "Uptime Bus" for high-system reliability. The UltraSPARC III processor offers a balanced, multidimensional portfolio of industry-bests in nearly every category of performance: clock speed, scaling capability, multiprocessor linearity, and processing bandwidth. The UltraSPARC III processor design is the only microprocessor on the market with an integrated scalable memory design, frequency isolation to allow mixed-speed CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. support within a single system, and a first-of-its-kind single-cycle coherency co·her·en·cy n. pl. co·her·en·cies Coherence. Noun 1. coherency - the state of cohering or sticking together coherence, cohesion, cohesiveness protocol. Sun began volume shipment of the 750 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. UltraSPARC III processor last year and in September 2000 announced the first implementations of the new processor in the Sun Blade(TM) 1000 high-end workstations and the Sun Fire(TM) 280R workgroup server. About MicroDesign Resources MicroDesign Resources, a Cahners company, is recognized as the leading provider of in-depth analysis of today's electronic industry trends for technical and business decision makers. MDR's team of staff analysts are respected worldwide for their credible, unbiased views. MDR's Microprocessor Report, published weekly on the Web, focuses on the constant advances in the microprocessor industry. Topics range from the most up-to-date analysis of developments in PC, server, workstation, and embedded processors, to the latest acceleration technology for 3D and video. About Sun Microsystems, Inc. Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- The Network Is The Computer(TM) -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq:SUNW) to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that power the Internet and allow companies worldwide to "dot-com" their businesses. With $15.7 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 170 countries and on the World Wide Web at www.sun.com. Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Sun Blade, Sun Fire and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and in other countries. All SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. in the United States and in other countries. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. Press announcements and other information about Sun Microsystems are available on the Internet via the World Wide Web at http://www.sun.com/ at the URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. prompt. |
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