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Sun releases plans to build on Rock
News Sun's current Sparc chips are built with a Texas Instruments manufacturing process with 90nm circuitry elements. Sparc processors, Niagara and Rock, that use a more advanced manufacturing process. Sun is also working on a partnership called APL...
[April 18, 2006, 9:25]
Solaris boost from Fujitsu
News Servers with Sparc chips run Sun's Solaris, but the addition of Itanium-based servers in April gave Fujitsu high-end servers that can run two other operating systems, Linux initially and Microsoft Windows later.
[May 19, 2005, 9:35]
Low-spec Niagara on the way
News The lower-end versions are chips that have some manufacturing defects but that still are useful, said David Yen, executive vice-president of Sun's Scalable Systems Group, which designs and sells servers using Sparc processors and the Solaris...
[September 22, 2005, 9:25]
Sun starts work on Niagara 3
News The company is betting that the approach will help restore its reputation for innovation and its revenue in the server market, where Sparc chips have lost share to competitors from Intel, AMD and IBM.
[October 19, 2006, 9:50]
Sun and Fujitsu update Sparc64 VII chips
News Sun's Sparc Enterprise servers can use both Sparc64 VI and VII processors in a single domain, meaning the new chips can be added into older servers without requiring other hardware changes, Sun said. Sun and Fujitsu on Tuesday announced new quad...
[October 14, 2009, 15:55]
Sun to ship dual-Niagara servers in 2008
News Sun also is working on a partnership with Fujitsu, which has its own line of Sparc chips. David Yen, formerly Sun's Sparc server chief but now in charge of its storage business, said in 2005 that Sun planned multiprocessor Niagara systems.
[February 7, 2007, 9:23]
Sun to open Sparc's doors
News The UltraSparc T1, code-named Niagara, is a major part of Sun's effort to restore waning enthusiasm for the company's Sparc line, which has lost market share to Power chips from IBM and x86 chips from Intel and AMD in recent years.
[December 7, 2005, 8:30]
Lighting a fire under Solaris
News Intel's Xeon, Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron and other x86 chips sell in vastly higher quantities than Sun's Sparc chips. Sun is fixing shortcomings where Solaris-x86 doesn't match up to Solaris-Sparc.
[April 26, 2006, 11:45]
IBM to fill out copper server line
News IBM officials say recent benchmarks show that IBM copper chips beat Sun's SPARC chips in terms of price and performance. Enterprise application developer Baan has reported that it takes 26 SPARC chips to achieve the same price/performance ratio as...
[March 21, 2000, 7:47]
Sun and IBM bury the hatchet
News The companies are fierce rivals when it comes to servers, so it's not surprising IBM wasn't the first to sign up to support Sun's effort to spread its operating system more broadly from its own Sparc processors to x86 chips.
[June 28, 2005, 10:00]
Sun and Fujitsu nurture closer alliance
News Both companies are members of the independent Sparc International group that determines common elements of Sparc chips, and both have extensive future chip plans. Sun and Fujitsu both build Sparc processors -- Fujitsu's Sparc64 and Sun's UltraSparc...
[October 24, 2003, 12:45]
Start-up boosts Sun's open source plans
News The Sparc chips, while popular in the 1990s for servers, have lost some ground to high-end chips, such as IBM's Power and Intel's new Itanium. Sun's Solaris version of Unix is chiefly used on Sparc processors, and the server maker is encouraging...
[September 12, 2006, 8:45]
The challenges to IBM of buying Sun
News But IBM would either have to adapt that technology to its own Power processors, a process that would take years, or embrace Sparc chips in its own line. IBM needs Sun's Sparc processor and Solaris operating systems like it needs a hole in its head.
[March 19, 2009, 7:45]
Sun loads 16 cores into 'Rock' chip
News Boosting performance is crucial to Sun's attempt to reverse the diminished influence and use of its Sparc family of processors, which have lost share to mainstream x86 chips from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices and to rivals such as IBM's Power...
[December 8, 2006, 15:52]
UltraSparc's future laid bare
News Sun has struggled to keep its Sparc family of chips competitive against lower-end but widely used x86 processors from Intel and AMD, and against higher-end RISC competitors such as IBM's Power. However, the launch of UltraSparc IV+, the...
[September 15, 2005, 10:05]
Sparc goes open source
News Sparc server group, is expected to discuss the move at the Multi-Core Sparc family, which has lost market share in recent years to IBM's Power and to x86 chips from Intel and AMD. UltraSparc architecture 2005, which defines the set of instructions...
[March 21, 2006, 8:25]
Sun's high hopes for Niagara
News Sun's Sparc processor family, hobbled by delays and lacklustre performance, has been losing share to x86 chips such as Intel's Xeon and to IBM's Power family. When was the last time a Sparc box had price-performance leadership in the Web tier?
[October 27, 2005, 17:00]
Sun and Fujitsu merge Sparc lines
News Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu will merge their Sparc processor-based server lines by mid-2006, the companies said on Tuesday. In October, Toni Sacconaghi, an analyst at Bernstein Investment Research and Management, estimated that joint development...
[June 2, 2004, 8:40]
Sun's latest chips near completion
News But it also is working to ensure the Sparc lineage keeps a place alongside x86, IBM's Power and Intel's Itanium. Sun inked a partnership with Fujitsu, the other major Sparc processor designer, to design joint systems called the Advanced Product...
[February 3, 2005, 15:40]
Sun doubles server speeds
News And although Sun cancelled its UltraSparc V, it continues to develop new Sparc models code-named Niagara and Rock while relying on a partnership with Fujitsu for other high-end Sparc models. Sun plans to detail the new chips at the Fall Processor...
[October 5, 2004, 15:15]
