10 Facts About SPARC64 VI

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The SPARC64 VI V was the basis for a series of successive processors designed for servers, and later, supercomputers.

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SPARC64 VI V is a four-issue superscalar microprocessor with out-of-order execution.

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The SPARC64 VI V has six reserve stations, two that serve the integer units, one for the address generators, two for the floating-point units, and one for branch instructions.

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The SPARC64 VI V has separate update buffers for integer and floating-point units.

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5.

SPARC64 VI V consisted of 191 million transistors, of which 19 million are contained in logic circuits.

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SPARC64 VI, code-named Olympus-C, is a two-core processor which succeeded the SPARC64 V+.

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SPARC64 VI was originally to have been introduced in mid-2004 in Fujitsu's PrimePower servers.

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8.

The SPARC64 VI processors featured in the SPARC Enterprise at its announcement were a 2.

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SPARC64 VI X is a 16-core server microprocessor announced in 2012 and used in Fujitsu's M10 servers.

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10.

SPARC64 VI X+ is an enhanced SPARC64 VI X processor announced in 2013.

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