Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 26th Aug 2009 18:08 UTC
"Sun Microsystems' product plans are up in the air pending its acquisition by Oracle, but the company's chip engineers continue to present new designs in the hope they'll see the light of day. At the Hot Chips conference at Stanford University on Tuesday, Sun presented plans for a security accelerator chip that it said would reduce encryption costs for applications such as VoIP calls and online banking Web sites. The chip, known as a coprocessor, will be included on the same silicon as Rainbow Falls, the code name for the follow-on to Sun's multithreaded Ultrasparc T2 processor."
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2006-01-19
It's a pretty unambiguously bad sign I'd say. But then again, Sun has been in a bad spot regarding processor design for probably half of the time they've been making processors. If it was all about processors, Alpha and MIPS would be alive and SPARC and x86 would be dead already.
I can't see anybody exiting the high-end Solaris business yet--I'd expect HP to drop HP-UX first. But I find it fascinating how IBM bought Transitive, and then completely buried them after the failed Sun merger (website doesn't even exist anymore). So maybe the brains at IBM figured they could keep the high end Solaris market without SPARC.