Joaquim P. Menezes of IT World Canada writes: Cautious anticipation appears to be the dominant mood as Sun prepares to unveil systems based on its massively multi-core, multithreaded UltraSparcT1 processor, code-named Niagara. The chip has eight processor cores, each of which is able to perform four independent processing tasks, or threads, at the same time. … Continue reading Shine Or Fall, Sun’s Niagara Launch Set