Fujitsu’s Takumi Maruyama briefly mentioned the new Sparc64 processor, called Venus, at the end of a presentation on Tuesday at the Hot Chips conference in Palo Alto, Calif., but he provided few details, including when the processor will ship. It will succeed the four-core Sparc64 VII processor released in servers from Fujitsu and Sun in July.
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