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UltraSPARC
Microprocessor developed by Sun Microsystems / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The UltraSPARC is a microprocessor developed by Sun Microsystems and fabricated by Texas Instruments, introduced in mid-1995. It is the first microprocessor from Sun to implement the 64-bit SPARC V9 instruction set architecture (ISA). Marc Tremblay was a co-microarchitect.
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![]() A 200 MHz UltraSPARC microprocessor | |
General information | |
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Launched | 1995 |
Discontinued | 1997 |
Designed by | Sun Microsystems |
Performance | |
Max. CPU clock rate | 143 MHz to 200 MHz |
Architecture and classification | |
Instruction set | SPARC V9 |
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History | |
Predecessor | SuperSPARC II |
Successor | UltraSPARC II |
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