UltraSPARC

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.

UltraSPARC
A 200 MHz UltraSPARC microprocessor
General information
Launched1995
Discontinued1997
Designed bySun Microsystems
Performance
Max. CPU clock rate143 MHz to 200 MHz
Architecture and classification
Instruction setSPARC V9
Physical specifications
Cores
  • 1
History
Predecessor(s)SuperSPARC II
Successor(s)UltraSPARC II
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