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Sun & Fujitsu Team On SPARC Chips & System

Posted by timothy on from the abstraction-to-abstraction dept.

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."

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  1. First post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    In yo face! Yea yea yea yea yea yea white boy. And I ain't even a GNAA member. Take that!

    1. Re:First post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Are you Stupid American?
      Then read This
      and This

  2. Re:What's actually going on here... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why the fuck did you add that comma there?

  3. Very punny... by blakespot · · Score: -1, Troll
    "Will this spark a new RISC renaissance for Sun and Fujitsu?"

    Booooooo!!! Good lord.


    blakespot

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  4. In related news by mirko · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sony just announced they'd stop distributing new Clie outside of Japan...
    So, if they left the handheld market to join the Sparc community, is it in order to create servers, or what ?

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  5. sun problem by millahtime · · Score: -1, Troll

    I have a big problem with suns that drives me nuts. If they are turned off wrong you can break them. Why would I want to buy that?

    I may have to pay a little more for another system but if you have brain dead people who break them so easily in the long run you make your money back.

    No system should be so fragile.

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  6. The problem is... by SQLz · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sun sucks a big fat one. I don't care who they partner with, MS, SCO, Fujitsu, they are going out of business.