In October 2006, an upgraded SX-8 was announced, the SX-8R. The NEC SX-8R processors run at 2.2 GHz for vectors and 1.1 GHz for scalar operations.
In October 2006, NEC released a revised version of its SX-8 processor, which now runs at 2.2 GHz for vector processing and 1.1 GHz for scalar computations.