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Sun Microsystems UltraSPARC II
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The Sun UltraSPARC II Processor
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The UltraSPARC II, introduced in 1997, was Sun's second generation high-performance, highly integrated superscalar processor implementing the SPARC V9 64-bit architecture. Building on the UltraSPARC I pipeline, UltraSPARC II scaled up its computation, multimedia, and networking performance. The design was retargeted for 0.35 µ (later 0.25 µ) CMOS, 5-layer metal technology, and added functional enhancements to boost data bandwidth, reduce cache-miss penalties, and improve floating-point and multimedia (VIS) performance. It also added multiple SRAM modes and variable system bus to processor clock ratios.
References:
SPARC at Wikipedia
UltraSPARC II announcement
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The CPU is mounted on a module together with cache controllers and 4MB L2 cache.