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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems

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To: Carmine Cammarosano who started this subject4/28/2003 3:33:53 PM
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Check back in 2005.

--QS

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...To tackle this problem, Sun is designing chips that, when they debut in 2005, will have four processors that each handle four threads, or the subprograms that can be executed independently. This way, whenever a processor stalls because it has to fetch data, it moves from one thread to another.

``Memory has been falling behind for a long time,'' said Yen. ``Rather than fight it, we're learning to deal with it. It's a fundamental change of mind.''
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