Oracle's Sparc T5 Chip Evidently Pushed Support to 2013

Mark Hachman writes in Slash Datacenter that the Sparc T5 chip Seer declared earlier this year apparently won't metal ready until sometime within 2013. Can Fowler, executive vice president, Systems, Oracle, presented at Oracle Open Global a diagram outlining highlights of Oracle's plans for the future. "But Fowler also skipped over every lousy news: an apparent delay for the Sparc T5. A yr agone, Oracle's Star segment announced the Sparc T4—and according to Fowler, Oracle chief Larry Ellison fit a very lofty bar for the close iteration: double the performance while maintaining app compatibility on an annual idea. Apparently, that didn't quite happen beside the T5; Prophet had the chance to announce a T5-based server, and didn't. That's a touch of frightful news all for the Star design team, which already had to watch Intel's Xeon primary, Diane Bryant, give the preceding keynote. ... As detailed at this year's Hot Chips conference, the T5 combines 16 CPU cores running at 3.6 GHz on a 28-nm manufacturing process. Continuing the trend of weaponry acceleration of specific functions, Sun executives claimed the chip would lead in on-chip encryption acceleration, with support for asymmetric (public key) encryption, symmetric encryption, hashing up to SHA-512, plus a hardware random number setup."

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