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I had almost forgotten about the SPARC CPUs. Looks like they're approaching 4 GHz, using TSMCs fab.

• cmurf 10y ago
  And is open, not proprietary and royalty free.
  • tossedaway334 10y ago
    while there is an openSPARC core (that is around 10 years old), SPARC in general is not "open, not proprietary and royalty free."
    • cmurf 10y ago
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARC Open Yes, and royalty free
  • nraynaud 10y ago
    it looks like the ESA is doing development on OpenSPARC, the idea is that you need doubles for accurate space computations ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEON https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEON )