Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 20th Oct 2005 21:42 UTC
These days, engineers at Sun Microsystems have their counterparts at chipmaker AMD on speed dial. Sun, whose turnaround plan bets heavily AMD Opteron-based processor servers, has gained the ear of the chipmaker over the last two years and thus is helping shape the future of the Opteron, which charged on the scene in early 2003 as a competitor to Intel's Xeon.
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Member since:What do you mean? How did they 'buy their way' to the
PC market? because they use AMD chips?
By the same contraction, HP, Dell all 'bought their way'
to the PC market.
If we are talking X86/X64 based servers and workstations
then I think the Galaxy class servers (x4XXX range) are
pretty innovative.
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Sounds like Sun virtually bought their way to the PC market.
One would think they could have done it on their own without any help, being the tech leader they are..