Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 21st Mar 2006 22:49 UTC
A month after releasing the architecture specifications and hypervisor APIs for its UltraSPARC T1 processor to the open-source community, Sun is putting out more information on the chip. Sun on March 21 will publish the hardware design for the T1 - formerly codenamed Niagara - and the Solaris operating system simulation specifications for the chip. The move is the latest in the company's OpenSPARC project, designed to enable hardware and software developers to build atop the new chip's architecture. The goal is to build an ecosystem around the processor that will expand the reach of the SPARC platform. In addition, Sun's grid will finally launch this week.
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2005-07-06
Because they know that nobody can go an make a cheaper version of the Sparc CPU and undercut them (unlike software). You'd have to have a fab and an assembly plant to put things to gether - it's not easy like software.
This simply buys some good brownie points from RMS and to rub it in IBM's face.
Sun itself is fabless, and the fab they are renting is TI, which is definitely not the cheapest. Companies that do have fabs themselves, can produce these ICs for less than Sun does, and have spent US$0 developing them.
Asfor "brownie points from RMS" and "rub it in IBM's face", even IF that was an achieved result, what's theusefulness of it?