At first, Rainier will support 40 Fast Ethernet or four Gigabit Ethernet ports. It will also be included in a line of IBM combination switch/routers and server interconnect devices, which will allow users to link and load balance high-capacity...
The launch was scheduled a day before the secretive Transmeta Corporation's planned unveiling of its Crusoe processor, reportedly a RISC chip aimed at mobile devices that need high performance at low power.
Sun has quashed rumours that it has been considering licensing the Fujitsu GP7000 sparc chip, rather than waiting for the belated Ultrasparc III chip. The vendor said at CeBIT in Hanover, it was aware of the rumours - circulating since Sun's delays...
A number of film and entertainment studios in the past year have swapped out Unix computers containing reduced instruction set computer (RISC) processors, like Sun's UltraSparc III, in favour of systems running Linux and chips from Intel or from...
That chip, which squeezes two UltraSparc III processor cores onto the same slice of silicon, is due in servers later this year. With the UltraSparc IIIi, Sun integrated high-speed cache memory that with the UltraSparc III remains separate and...
The government is urging drivers to switch off their mobile phones before setting off on a journey to cut down the number of motorists still flouting the law by using a mobile while behind the wheel. Road safety minister Jim Fitzpatrick launched...