I remember reading a an article in eWeek (I believe) that discussed a couple of new SUN machines based on one of AMDs 64bit chips. I am not sure whether it was the opteron or the FX series of chips. It was something I just glanced over considering I am not buying/working with allot of SUN equipment, but I did find it interesting nonetheless that sun will begin to outsource chips.
On a side note it is interesting to hear that SUN is going to be building new dual core SPARCs, it seems that they are following in the foot steps of IBM and the Power4. Multi core fabrics in CPUs seem to be catching on in the high end computing market.
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I remember reading a an article in eWeek (I believe) that discussed a couple of new SUN machines based on one of AMDs 64bit chips. I am not sure whether it was the opteron or the FX series of chips. It was something I just glanced over considering I am not buying /working with allot of SUN equipment, but I did find it interesting nonetheless that sun will begin to outsource chips.
On a side note it is interesting to hear that SUN is going to be building new dual core SPARCs, it seems that they are following in the foot steps of IBM and the Power4. Multi core fabrics in CPUs seem to be catching on in the high end computing market.