Future CPUs - 128 threads

[Peter Jeremy]

On 2010-Feb-11 20:18:04 +0100, Ivan Voras <ivoras at freebsd.org> wrote:
>Recent news:
>
>Niagara 3 - 128 hardware threads
>Power 7 - 32 hardware threads

I'm not sure how far off real Niagara-3 based products are but you
can buy dual-socket T-2 systems (128 h/w threads) off the shelf.
Sun announced some years ago that they would be doubling the number
of threads per CPU socket every 2 years or so.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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