Sun & Fujitsu Team On SPARC Chips & System 121
An anonymous reader writes "Sun and Fujitsu just announced a 20-year partnership to jointly develop SPARC based technology and systems. It looks like the long-predicted partnership that was hinted at earlier has finally come to pass in a much more comprehensive manner than I've heard anyone predict, i.e. not just chips, but a unified range of systems. My guess: Sun drops Ultrasparc III to provide the Throughput computing chips for the low end / web / network stuff, and takes up the Fujitsu provided SPARC64 chips for the high end and workstation market. Will this spark a new RISC renaissance for Sun and Fujitsu? Or is it a last gasp before Opteron / PowerPC / Itanium crush them? I for one will be interested to see what systems and processors come out of this. This could really revitalize the SPARC system market, especially if Sun's work on Throughput computing proves out."
that's why... (Score:5, Funny)
Wonder how this fits into the free hardware (Score:5, Funny)
Will this spark (Score:2, Funny)
Ha ha ha, very funny.
Re:What's actually going on here... (Score:5, Funny)
Who wants a single (or dual) core 5GHz chip anyway? Think of the memory bandwidth problems.
They announced their partnership? (Score:4, Funny)
And which one wore the dress?
Re:What's actually going on here... (Score:1, Funny)
Cunning writers (Score:1, Funny)
Stop it, you're punning me to death. But really though, will the benchmarks from the new systems be fiery or all wet? How heavy are the servers, are they any lighter? And will the chips light your boxes afire or will they be different from the flaming Xeon? Will it be a match for Opteron?
Did Sun.... (Score:2, Funny)
That is a slick move- offer free hardware- and then team up with a hardware company to pay for it. Brilliant.
And I, for one... (Score:3, Funny)