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Sun's next goal: A Linux ecosystem

February 8, 2006 A top exec says Sun is "dead serious" about an open-source push for its Sparc chips. Critics say it's trying to save an endangered species. TAGS: Sun Sparc, BSD, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, Sun UltraSPARC, ecosystem, Linux, Jonathan Schwartz, x86 processor, AMD Opteron, software company, open source, IBM Corp., president, AMD, server

Sun makes Niagara an open-source chip

December 7, 2005 Release of the chip's underlying design is intended to increase the relevance of the UltraSparc T1 processor line. TAGS: T1, Sun UltraSPARC, Sun Sparc, Sun Microsystems Inc., open source, Sun Solaris, IBM Corp., design, AMD, server, Intel

Sun, Fujitsu to launch joint Sparc servers

April 17, 2007 Jointly designed servers, with 4 to 64 dual-core "Olympus" processors, were originally part of effort to keep Sparc from fading away. Photos: Sun's new enterprise servers TAGS: Sun Sparc, Sparc64, Sun UltraSPARC, enterprise server, Sun Microsystems Inc., Afara Websystems, Fujitsu, Olympus Corp., dual-core, Sun Solaris, server, IBM Corp.

Sun, allies broaden open-source chip push

May 15, 2007 Two companies are working on derivatives of Sun's open-source Niagara processor; Sun plans to share Niagara 2's designs, too. TAGS: Sun Sparc, Sun Microsystems Inc., open source, Sun UltraSPARC, derivatives, dot-com, Sun Solaris, open-source software, server, China, CEO

Sun plans lower-end Niagara chip

September 21, 2005 Lower-end version has fewer processor cores and some manufacturing defects but is still useful, top Sparc server exec says. TAGS: Sun UltraSPARC, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Sparc, Unix server, multiprocessor, manufacturing, Sun Solaris, thread, design, dual-core, Unix, server, Fujitsu

Sparc-on-Intel translator due in weeks

August 17, 2006 Start-up Transitive plans to release software to run Sparc-on-Solaris software on Linux-on-Xeon. TAGS: Sun Solaris, Sun UltraSPARC, Sun Sparc, Intel Xeon, Sun Microsystems Inc., Intel x86, Linux, Intel, instruction, operating system

Sun, Fujitsu promise Sparc speed surge

October 11, 2006 The two chip designers tout performance improvements set to arrive in their new Sparc models. TAGS: Sparc64, Sun Sparc, Sun Microsystems Inc., throughput, Fujitsu, Sun UltraSPARC, Sun Solaris, real estate, factor, collaboration, thread, dual-core, task, server

Sun at work on Niagara, Rock successors

April 17, 2006 Sun begins engineering Sparc sequels that use a more advanced manufacturing process. TAGS: Sun Microsystems Inc., manufacturing process, Sun Sparc, circuitry, manufacturing, Sun UltraSPARC, Sun Solaris, thread, server, process, AMD, operating system
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