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Sun Kills Rock CPU, Says NYT Report
BBCWatcher writes "Despite Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's recent statement that his company will continue Sun's hardware business, it won't be with Sun processors (and associated engineering jobs). The New York Times reports that Sun has canceled its long-delayed Rock processor, the next generation SPARC CPU. Instead, the Times says Sun/Oracle will have to rely on Fujitsu for SPARCs (and Intel otherwise). Unfortunately Fujitsu is decreasing its R&D budget and is unprofitable at present. Sun's cancellation of Rock comes just after Intel announced yet another delay for Tukwila, the next generation Itanium, now pushed to 2010. HP is the sole major Itanium vendor. Primary beneficiaries of this CPU turmoil: IBM and Intel's Nehalem X86 CPU business."
Yeah, I'm sure IBM's purchase of Sun had a HUGE amount to do with this. Those IBM bastards, canceling competing projects left and right. I'm sure this was their secret plan all along. Killing SPARC because it's such a good competitor to Power and xSeries.
Oh wait, IBM DIDN'T purchase Sun. Oracle purchased Sun. The summary hinted as much.
You're really out of date. At least have a fact to add to your conspiracy theory. One fact is a big help.
Idiot.
-DwS
Nonsense. Everyone knows that paper kills rock.
...the entire world is to be forced onto the X86 monoculture (except perhaps for a few ARMs at the low end). Something else for which we can thank Microsoft.
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