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UltraSPARC II

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The UltraSPARC IIi "Sabre" featuring on-chip PCI controller was a low-cost version introduced in 1997 that operated at 270 to 360 MHz. It was fabricated in a 0.35 μm process and possessed a die size of 156 mm. It dissipated 21 W and used a 1.9 V power supply. It had a 256 KB to 2 MB L2
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In 1999, the UltraSPARC II was ported to a 0.25 μm process. This version was code-named "Sapphire-Black". It operated at 360 to 480 MHz, possessed a die area of 126 mm, dissipated 21 W at 400 MHz and the power supply voltage was reduced to 1.9 V. Supported L2 cache capacity was
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The DAC 2004 abstracts described the dual-core UltraSPARC II processor in Session 40. The "Dual-Core UltraSPARC (2003)" was based upon the UltraSPARC II microarchitecture and featured: DDR-1 memory controller, JBUS interface, parity protected
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cache. In 1998, a version code-named Sapphire-Red, was fabricated in a 0.25 μm process, enabling the microprocessor to operate at 333 to 480 MHz. It dissipated 21 W at 440 MHz and used a 1.9 V power supply.
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The UltraSPARC IIe+ or IIi was introduced in 2002. Code-named "Phantom", it operated at 550 to 650 MHz and was fabricated in a 0.18 μm process with
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The UltraSPARC IIe "Hummingbird" was an embedded version introduced in 2000 that operated at 400 to 500 MHz, fabricated in a 0.18 μm process with
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microprocessor in early 2004. It consisted of two UltraSPARC II cores and an on-die L2 cache on a single chip.
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Kapil, S; McGhan, H; Lawrendra, J (2004). "A chip multithreaded processor for network-facing workloads".
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was the chief architect. Introduced in 1997, it was further development of the
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process, dissipated 25 W at 205 MHz, and used a 2.5 V power supply.
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The UltraSPARC II was the basis for four derivatives.
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Index

UltraSPARC III

Sun Microsystems
CPU
clock rate
Instruction set
SPARC V9
Cores
UltraSPARC
UltraSPARC III
microprocessor
SPARC V9
instruction set architecture
Sun Microsystems
Marc Tremblay
UltraSPARC
clock frequencies
die
transistors
fabricated
Texas Instruments
μm
L2 cache



aluminium interconnects
copper interconnect

multithreaded microprocessor

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