Star Sun Is Said To Cancel Big Chip
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 16th Jun 2009 20:02 UTC
SUN Microsystems Sun Microsystems may have dropped a bit of weight by the time Oracle officially acquires the company. According to two people briefed on Sun's plans, the company has cancelled its Rock chip project, putting an end to one of its biggest revitalization bets. Sun has been working on the Rock project for more than five years, hoping to create a chip with many cores that would trounce competing server chips from IBM. and Intel. The company has talked about Rock in the loftiest of terms and built it up as a game-changing product. In April 2007, Jonathan Schwartz, the chief executive of Sun, bragged about receiving the first test versions of Rock. But the two people familiar with Sun's plans say Rock has met with an unceremonious end. The people requested anonymity, as they are not authorized to speak with the press about Sun's plans. Michelle Parkinson, a Sun spokeswoman, said the company had no comment.
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RE[2]: It's Never Too Late
by Mapou on Wed 17th Jun 2009 02:27 UTC in reply to "RE: It's Never Too Late"
Mapou
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What a minute, that's stepping way over the line. The last century of computing models have been a failure? The unparalleled progression has changed our lives more than anything in the history of mankind. If you stepped back to 1909 you would see a completely different world and a LOT more manual tasks that we all take for granted today.

The context of my comment is the parallel programming crisis. The Turing Computing Model is no help in finding a solution and is, in fact, the cause of the crisis. Sounds like failure to me.

Anyway, this is just my opinion. So don't let it bother you too much.

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