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Sun Joins Apple in the Intel Camp for x86 Chips
An anonymous reader writes "Don't worry, SPARC isn't being replaced by Itanic. However, Sun will start using Intel Xeon CPU's in their X86 servers. Further evidence that Intel's Core microarchitecture is winning back a lot of the business that AMD won with Opteron." More coverage at CNN Money and the International Herald Tribune.
If this was last year, he was likely talking about the older (P4-based) Xeon, not the new (Core 2-based) Xeon.
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No, they're using Intel chips in their line of servers that previously used AMD chips. For the pro-AMD slashdotters, this is "a very bad thing"(tm).
Of all the links posted in the summary, there's no link to the webcast on Sun's site about the story (01/22/07 @ 10:00 PST, Realplayer 10 required). :P
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Which makes sense. When there are two competitive players whose product features and performance keep passing each other, why not give the customer a choice and at the same time exploit that competition to improve ones own position...
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Sun is moving ahead with their SPARC servers, and just taped out a successor to the Niagara. If you'd read the article, you'd know they are replacing their (quite excellent) AMD servers with Intel ones, not SPARC with anything. Sun has quite happily been selling both architectures for some time now.