Sun Turns UltraSPARC-II Microprocessors Up To 360 MHz; Suped-up Processors Drive Sun's Newest Workstations.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.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 5, 1998--Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced that it has once again raised the performance level of the UltraSPARCTM microprocessor family with the release of a 360 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. version of the UltraSPARC-II microprocessor. This new speed grade, along with the recently announced 333 MHz version of the UltraSPARC-IIi microprocessor, continues to demonstrate the robustness and scalability of the industry's most dynamic 64-bit microprocessor architecture. The 360 MHz UltraSPARC-II processor is powering Sun's new UltraTM 60 workstations, which are also being announced today (see separate release from Sun). "We continue to push the envelope on the highest performing 64-bit microprocessor in the industry," said Jeff O'Neal, Sun Microsystems Group Marketing Manager for SPARCTM Products. "Workstations and servers needing application performance, reliability, data bandwidth and throughput are best served by the UltraSPARC microprocessor family." A 360 MHz UltraSPARC-II microprocessor with 4 Mbytes of Level 2 cache See L2 cache. level 2 cache - secondary cache delivers a SPECint95 rating of 16.1 and a SPECfp95 rating of 23.5. The UltraSPARC-II processor can sustain dedicated bandwidth to main memory to the order of 1920 Mbytes/second, far exceeding other industry players -- which top out at around 600 Mbytes/second. "You can't find an NT-based multiprocessor system on the market today that delivers the same performance as we offer with the 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 and Solaris operating environment combination," said Robert Novak, group manager, power desktop workstations for Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation. "Our workstation and server success is built on the UltraSPARC architecture, both today and in the future." Industry Leading Scalability and Application Performance The UltraSPARC-II processor was created with multi-processing scalability in mind, giving Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) the ability to offer a complete range of systems to their customers, allowing designers to boost system performance by simply adding more processors. A key design point in the SPARC architecture is to allow simple multiprocessor scalability. With the Solaris operating environment, UltraSPARC-II processors provide industry-leading performance in the most widely used software operating environment for high-end workstations and servers and the high performance telecommunications markets. It offers competitive performance, integrated networking, database connectivity, superior reliability and security. The UltraSPARC-II processor is supported by key Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) such as Parametric Technology (MCAD MCAD Microsoft Certified Application Developer MCAD Mechanical Computer Aided Design MCAD Medium-Chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase (inherited metabolic disease) MCAD Minneapolis College of Art and Design ), Synopsis (ECAD ECAD Electronic Computer-Aided Design ECAD European Cities Against Drugs ECAD European Center for Aviation Development ECAD external carotid artery dysplasia ), Oracle (DB) and S.A.P. (ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. ). In addition, industry-leading Real Time Operating System A master control program that can provide immediate response to input signals and transactions. See real time system and embedded Linux. (RTOS (1) (RealTime Operating System) An operating system designed for use in a real time computer system. See real time system, embedded system, process control and OS-9. ) vendors support the SPARC platform. Most Robust VISTM Multimedia Instruction Set Available Today The UltraSPARC-II processor takes full advantage of Sun's VIS instruction set for applications in accelerating multimedia, image processing, and networking. The VIS instruction set continues to be the highest-performance and most robust set of multimedia extensions available today. UltraSPARC microprocessor customers have expanded the breadth of VIS applications to include media intensive applications, such as three-dimensional graphics and medical imaging. Availability and Pricing The entire UltraSPARC-II microprocessor module family is available today. In volume quantities at 360 MHz with 4 MBytes of external cache, the UltraSPARC-II microprocessor module sells for $3,970. For further information about UltraSPARC-II processors or any other microprocessors from Sun, contact Sun Microelectronics Sales at US 800/681-8845 or international +1-512/434-1503, or visit our Web site at http://www.sun.com/microelectronics. About Sun Microsystems, Inc. Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision, "The Network Is The ComputerTM," has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. 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