Sun talked a little more about its CPU roadmap today, christening the ultra-dense multiple core SPARC technology it acquired from Afara Websystems last year "Niagara".
As we exclusively revealed here, Afara Websystems was established to explore ultra dense multiple-core systems based on the SPARC instruction set. Behind Niagara is chip guru Les Kohn, who was involved in the Intel i860 and i960 chips, and NatSemi's Swordfish. He previously served a spell at Sun designing UltraSPARC I.
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