Sun's new chip platform began to be applied

Sun Microsystems has just acquired its first customer to agree on the application of new chip technology - "Neptune" that it reformed not long ago.

Marvell Technology Group has licensed the "Neptune" design, Sun's new chip technology to help build Ethernet-connected networks with speeds of up to 10Gbps, for its server and server network lines. The details of the agreement between the two parties have yet to be revealed.

Picture 1 of Sun's new chip platform began to be applied Under the plan, Marvell will use Neptune to build network server products sold to customers. " These products will help expand its LAN product portfolio to the enterprise server and customer PC market, " said spokeswoman Marvell, Diane Vanasse.

Neptune is also called " Sun Multithreaded 10 Gig E Networking Technology ", primarily for multi-core chips. Sun will apply Neptune technology to x86 and Sparc platforms. The technology will also be integrated for the Sun Niagara 2 processor expected to be available in the first half of this year.

A little while ago, Sun began to develop the UltraSparc T1 chip (8-core "Niagara") code, each capable of running 4 scripts (strings). With a total of 32 sequences, Niagara will be one of Sun's most powerful multi-threaded chips, but it has yet to penetrate it compared to the chips developed by Intel, AMD and IBM.