Robert Pouliot wrote:
> In article <Pine.GSO.4.44.0404092310560.12193-100000@publix>, Ade Fewings wrote:
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/09/sun_kills_us5/
>>
>> Does this signal the beginning of the end of the Sparc line? I think
>> maybe it does. I can imagine Fujitsu chips filling in the Sparc high-end
>> for a bit, but i suspect AMD64, IBM's POWER chips and [unfortunately]
>
> Maybe Sun will instead do an alliance with Fujitsu, since their Sparc64
> seem better than Sun UltraSparc. Sun best product is IMHO Solaris, not
> their UltraSparc themselves.
> Yeah. Looks like Sun will concentrate on low-end CPUs, their software (OS,
Java, etc.) and the assembly of Sparc64 CPUs into high-end SMP, and such.
If you look it that way, nothing is lost at all. And there're still US-III+
and US-IV+ to come.
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