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...
But the new Sun servers will all use the entry-level 750 MHz UltraSparc III chip because faster versions, promised for this quarter, are not yet available. The mid-range SunFire servers will incorporate top-end features previously available only on...
The new UltraSparc III processor, which is expected to be available within 120 days, consumes a maximum of 53 watts of power compared with 75 watts for the current UltraSparc III, Sun plans to announce.
Ingram said the Niagara technology will provide lower-end servers with chips that have 15 times the power of the 650MHz UltraSparc IIi used in Sun's blade servers. The follow-on will have 30 times the power of the newest 1.2GHz UltraSparc III, he...
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 V840, which had been code-named Cherrystone, comes with 1.05GHz UltraSparc III processors instead of 900MHz models. Sun's 1.05GHz UltraSparc III processors aren't its fastest. But the Santa Clara, California-based company still prefers to sell...