Sun Microsystems unveils UltraSPARC T1 Processor

World's First Eco-Responsible Processor Uses Less than 70 Watts, Designed to Deliver Millions of Dollars in Energy Savings for Customers. Sun's UltraSparc T1 has eight processing 'cores' on a single piece of silicon.

Sun Microsystems (SUNW) today announced the introduction of the UltraSPARC(R) T1 - formerly known as "Niagara". The world's first high-performance, energy efficient processor will debut in a new line of breakthrough Sun Fire servers before the end of 2005. Using patented CoolThreads chip multi-threading technology that leverages the threaded nature of Solaris 10, the world's most advanced operating system, the breakthrough chip is the world's first Eco-responsible processor: research shows that UltraSPARC T1 processor performance could eliminate the number of Web servers in the world by half, slashing power requirements and having the same effect in reducing carbon dioxide emissions as planting one million acres of trees. (1) [Read the rest here].

It's coo says, that the chip gives the firm a five-year leap on IBM's Power and Intel's Xeon processors. Attention IBM and Intel..