Few people hold the status of “visionary” in the computer processor field, but Sun Microsystems’ Marc Tremblay fits the bill. Sun fellow, vice president, and chief architect for the firm’s Scalable Systems Group, Tremblay foresaw the advent of “throughput computing” and the jump in performance afforded by multiple cores and multiple computing threads. Sun recently announced the eight-core Niagara chip, also known as the UltraSPARC T1.
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Sun Microsystems’ Marc Tremblay Envisions Future for Server Chips
Posted by: Jay Lyman February 15, 2006 05:00 AMFew people hold the status of “visionary” in the computer processor field, but Sun Microsystems’ Marc Tremblay fits the bill. Sun fellow, vice president, and chief architect for the firm’s Scalable Systems Group, Tremblay foresaw the advent of “throughput computing” and the jump in performance afforded by multiple cores and multiple computing threads. Sun recently announced the eight-core Niagara chip, also known as the UltraSPARC T1.