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Sun Open-Sourcing UltraSPARC Design

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the why-shouldn't-it-work-for-hardware-too dept.

AKAImBatman writes "While everyone was busy with the holiday season, Sun Microsystems quietly announced the start of the OpenSPARC project. Unlike previous CPUs that were based on the "Open" SPARC specifications (such as LEON), Sun is releasing the complete Verilog source code to their latest and greatest microprocessor. Their current time frame for releasing the source code to the public is in March of 2006. Given their success with the OpenSolaris project, it seems that this is likely to be more than just vaporware. So get out your Virtex FPGAs and your Verilog compilers, and let's get ready to hack some hardware!"

3 of 250 comments (clear)

  1. Re:woohoo! by hyc · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    HP had to bury the Alpha because it put PA-RISC and everything from Intel utterly to shame.

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  2. Replacing Linux boxes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I can see the benefit of releasing Solaris for X86 based hardware. We are now in the process of replacing 140 Linux installs with SolarisX86. However, it is unlikely that we will put Sparc based hardware out there after testing quad socket dual AMD Opteron solutions.

  3. Re:too far? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Um, weren't you just begging for donations because you sold your house to fund Blastwave? I don't think you can buy much of anything for cheap, Tex.

    Meanwhile Sun just keeps losing money out of every oriface. Sort of like you. Compared to IBM, Sun is is really doing quite well! No, wait, they aren't.