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. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

Fujitsu Ltd. unveiled plans Tuesday for a quad-core processor based on the Sparc instruction set that is scheduled to appear in high-end Unix servers around 2008. The Sparc64 VI+, code-named Jupiter, ...

Company says its "Rock" processor is designed for more-demanding, higher-end tasks. Also in works: second-generation Niagara. Photo: 'Niagara' falls into prototype Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

The past few years have seen some major changes in Sun hardware. The return of Andy Bechtolsheim has brought forth an impressive array of new server hardware, and reinvented Sun as an x86 server ...

Data center consolidation and virtualization may be driving server implementations these days, but there's a much more fundamental shift occurring at the microprocessor platform level. Systems based ...

Oracle has sketched out a five-year road map for Sun's Sparc-based servers, hoping to reassure customers about the future of the platform and reverse a pattern of declining sales. John Fowler, the ...

The first servers are emerging this month from a Sun Microsystems-Fujitsu alliance begun three years ago in a major effort to keep the Sparc processor line alive and kicking. Overall, the Sparc ...

LONDON — The Leon 3 licensible Sparc processor, developed by Gaisler Research AB (Gothenberg, Sweden) has symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) support, in the form of a port of the Linux 2.6 operating ...

Oracle will port its Enterprise Linux distribution to Sun’s Sparc processor, a move that could help it compete better against IBM and Hewlett-Packard in the high-end server business. CEO Larry Ellison ...

Sun Microsystems' ambitions have grown another size larger. The server and software company launched its servers based on its own UltraSparc T1 "Niagara" chips in December, a major part of a drive to ...

The past few years have seen some major changes in Sun hardware. The return of Andy Bechtolsheim has brought forth an impressive array of new server hardware, and reinvented Sun as an x86 server ...