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Sun To Use AMD Mobile Processor In Blade Servers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the who'da-thunk-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Looks like AMD is finally making some headway into supplying 1st tier business computer makers which the announcement that Sun will use their chips in upcoming blade servers. Apparently CNET can't help but speculate what this means for AMD's 64 bit Hammer."

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  1. But what about the end of Sun? by stewartj · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Cringely seems to think that Sun won't last long though, so will there be long-term benefit to AMD?

  2. This isn't the first time AMD has been here... by xenophrak · · Score: 5, Interesting


    Sun has used AMD CPU's before, although not in the primetime in their servers. They did use them in the SunPCi cards for workstations. I still have one.

    The reason that Sun used AMD (the K6-2, I believe) instead of a Pentium, like they did with the SunPCi 2, is that at the time it made more sense price-wise. I see no difference here.

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