Sun Moves Into Commodity Silicon

Samrobb writes "According to Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz, Sun has decided to release its UltraSPARC T2 processor under the GPL. Schwartz writes, 'We're announcing the fastest microprocessor we've ever shipped this week — delivering 89.6 Ghz of parallel computing power on a single chip — running standard Java applications and open source OS's. Simultaneously, we've said we're entering the commodity marketplace, and opening the chip up to our competition... To add fuel to the fire, the blueprints for our UltraSPARC T2... the core design files and test suites, will be available to the open source community, via its most popular license: the GPL.'" Sun is still working on getting these released; early materials are up on OpenSPARC.net.

Comments

Sweet

[Anonymous Coward]

Finally a chip that you can run Java on.

Re:Sweet

[bugnuts]

Will these "Java chips" make me look fat? Not if you add a little silicon(e) to the right places.

Re:Sweet

[larry bagina]

fortunately, the moderation system exists so we don't have to independently decide if a post is funny , informative, offtopic, etc.

Irony

[Dachannien]

Clicking the OpenSPARC.net link returned the message: "This Account Has Exceeded Its CPU Quota"

You don't have to fab it

[Wesley Felter]

Apparently Sun will sell the chips to you already manufactured if you want.