Sun Reveals High-tech Rock
News Sun Microsystems will discuss a future high-end processor on Wednesday; a chip code-named Rock that will combine features of its own designs with technology it acquired from Afara Websystems, sources said.
[February 11, 2004, 8:50]
Sun To Supercharge UltraSparc With Afara Acquisition
News Sun Microsystems has signed an agreement to acquire chip design start-up Afara Websystems to bolster the UltraSparc processors at the heart of its business, a Sun executive said on Tuesday. Afara, backed by Sequoia Capital and Raza Foundries, had...
[June 26, 2002, 9:43]
Sun Rehires UltraSparc Gurus
News Some of the original designers of Sun Microsystems' first UltraSparc processor have returned to the company as the server maker announced Tuesday that it has completed its acquisition of chip designer Afara Websystems.
[July 24, 2002, 8:06]
Sun Woos Pundits With Fresh Technology
News Two main features will be "Orion", Sun's plan to integrate more of its higher-level software into its Solaris operating system and sell it on a subscription basis, and "throughput computing", the use of chip technology from Sun's acquisition of...
[February 25, 2003, 7:33]
Sun Lights Chip Roadmap
News Changing that policy, Yen detailed several processors scheduled to arrive in coming years, including the UltraSparc IV and V models and the "throughput computing" technology acquired from Afara Websystems.
[February 26, 2003, 9:28]
Low-spec Niagara On The Way
News Sun acquired the Niagara design when it bought Afara Websystems in 2002. At the time we acquired Afara, Niagara was probably one-third done," Yen said. Sun's forthcoming Niagara chip has eight cores, but the company will sell versions with six or...
[September 22, 2005, 9:25]
Sun's Niagara Chip Moves Into Testing
News Sun acquired the Niagara design when it bought start-up Afara Websystems in 2002. Sun Microsystems has completed the design of its Niagara processor, a crucial product in the server maker's effort to keep its own UltraSparc chip family competitive...
[May 12, 2004, 9:30]
Sun Set To Redesign UltraSparc
News The systems will exploit so-called "multicore" processor technology that Sun acquired from Afara Websystems last year. At its conference for analysts this week, Sun Microsystems will outline the direction in which it's headed with its UltraSparc...
[February 24, 2003, 15:29]
Sun Chips Hit A Snag
News CMT designs, acquired through Sun's purchase of start-up Afara Websystems, will initially be used in lower-end servers that handle Java and Web services transactions. Two high-end chip models from Sun Microsystems look likely to debut later than...
[June 5, 2003, 7:39]
Sun's Storage Faring Better Than Servers
News Its July 2002 purchase of Afara Websystems, key to Sun's advanced "chip multithreading" microprocessor plans, cost $28m in stock. Sun Microsystems has revealed for the first time the financial performance of its storage division, showing in a...
[May 15, 2003, 8:16]
Sun Says New Chip Doubles Speed
News Sun's chip design plans have changed dramatically since the acquisition of Afara Websystems, a start-up that employed some original UltraSparc I designers. Ingram said that processor will combine chip technology from today's UltraSparc lineage...
[October 13, 2003, 8:40]
Sun-Fujitsu Effort Produces Sparc Servers
News Sun concluded, at the time, that it needed a radical revamp of its UltraSparc models, scrapping the UltraSparc V in favour of designs acquired from Afara Websystems that instead emphasised cramming numerous processing engines called cores onto a...
[April 17, 2007, 17:53]
Java Start-up Sues Sun Over Software Patents
News Azul employs several ex-Sun employees besides himself, DeWitt said in an interview, including a "teeny number" of employees of the Afara Websystems start-up that created the Niagara design before Sun acquired it.
[March 16, 2006, 9:50]
