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Sun-Fujitsu effort produces Sparc servers
News The first servers are emerging this month from a Sun-Fujitsu alliance begun three years ago in a major effort to keep the Sparc processor line alive and kicking. Overall, the Sparc Enterprise Server systems are jointly designed, but they use...
[April 17, 2007, 17:53]
Sun-Fujitsu collaboration plan slips
News A server collaboration between Sun and Fujitsu has run into a delay that is likely to mean some products won't arrive until next year, a top Sun server executive said Wednesday. Under the Advanced Product Line (APL) deal the companies launched in...
[January 26, 2006, 10:20]
Sun and Fujitsu update Sparc64 VII chips
News Sun and Fujitsu on Tuesday announced new quad-core Sparc64 VII processors and an enhanced memory controller for the Sparc Enterprise server line. Sun and Fujitsu introduced the first Sparc64 VII chips in 2008.
[October 14, 2009, 15:55]
Sun and Fujitsu nurture closer alliance
News Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu, competitors with servers that are united by a common processor design and operating system, are in discussions that could mean a tighter alliance. Japanese business newspaper Nihon Keisai Shimbun reported on Wednesday...
[October 24, 2003, 12:45]
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. Fujitsu for years has produced its own Sparc chip family, Sparc64, whose different hardware interface can't fit into Sun's...
[June 2, 2004, 8:40]
Sun and Fujitsu to boost Sparc speed
News Sun and Fujitsu engineers on Tuesday promised significant performance increases with two next-generation chips, models they hope will help keep the Sparc line relevant. Both processors, Sun's eight-core Niagara 2 and Fujitsu's dual-core Sparc64 VI...
[October 11, 2006, 9:20]
Sun and Fujitsu unveil T5440 server
News Sun and its partner Fujitsu on Monday announced the T5440 server, at what Sun describes as an "aggressive" price point. According to Sun, the server features intelligent fan control (IFC), which adjusts rotational fan speed according to changes in...
[October 13, 2008, 16:55]
Fujitsu turbocharges server chip
News Fujitsu has boosted the speed of its Sparc64 V processor with a new manufacturing process, a move made more significant in light of the Japanese company's server partnership with Sun Microsystems, the company plans to announce on Tuesday.
[June 22, 2004, 9:00]
Photos: Sun's Sparc Enterprise servers
News Sun and Fujitsu have launched their jointly designed Sparc Enterprise Server family, which is the new name for what was previously known as the Advanced Product Line. In addition to the M4000 and M5000, Fujitsu and Sun sell the lower-end T1000 and...
[April 18, 2007, 13:02]
Fujitsu to unveil 128-CPU server
News Fujitsu Technology Solutions will announce its new top-end Unix server Monday, a 128-processor behemoth that will put pressure on Sun Microsystems, IBM and Hewlett-Packard. Fujitsu Technology made its debut in March, launching an effort to take on...
[July 12, 2001, 12:33]
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]
Sun stakes servers on Rock
News According to benchmarks, Fujitsu is doing a better job engineering Sparc than Sun has been," King said. Sun yielded some autonomy when it joined forces with Fujitsu. In the APL partnership, Fujitsu will build the Olympus processors and Sun's...
[July 20, 2004, 9:15]
Fujitsu makes Itanium mark
News Fujitsu's US computer subsidiary has begun its first major foray into the Itanium server market, with the launch of a system that modestly boosts Intel's push for the high-end processor. Fujitsu has begun taking orders for the Primergy RXI600...
[December 18, 2003, 14:20]
Fujitsu unveils latest Itanium offering
News With these additions Fujitsu will be able to offer customers four different kinds of servers: mainframes based on Fujitsu's own technology, Unix/RISC servers from a technology relationship with Sun, Itanium servers running Windows or Linux and...
[April 6, 2005, 9:20]
HP keeps grip on European server market
News Sun also reduced its shipments gap with Fujitsu Siemens getting closer to the fourth position. On the revenue side, HP declined by the market average of 0.1 percent, year on year, but was still the market leader with $1.262bn, or 32.3 percent of...
[August 25, 2006, 14:20]
Sun regains server market strength
News At number five, the combination of Fujitsu and Fujitsu Siemens dropped 7 percent to $2.5bn. Sun, bruised by years of trying to recover from the dot-com bust, saw revenue gains that beat server rivals in 2006, according to new figures.
[February 23, 2007, 8:12]
Clearance! Sun chops old server prices
News In addition to competition from IBM and HP, Sun faces new competition in North America from Fujitsu Technology Solutions, which sells systems that use the same operating system and often the same chips as Sun's servers.
[April 18, 2001, 9:31]
Sun: we're backing Opteron
News Sun, meanwhile, cooperates with Fujitsu on the evolution of the Sparc chip. In 2007 and 2008, Sun's high-end servers will come with a chip mostly developed by Fujitsu with input from Sun, Yen said. It's only a matter of time before Sun Microsystems...
[July 25, 2005, 10:35]
Sun shines through tech clouds - just
News At the same time that IBM and HP have stepped up their competitive pressure on Sun, the company faces a new North American threat in Fujitsu Technology Solutions, which is selling high-end servers with the same operating system and CPUs similar to...
[April 20, 2001, 8:17]
New CPUs fuel server competition
News This competition exists across the entire range of server lines, from the new, sub-$1,000 Unix servers from Unix market leaders Sun and Hewlett-Packard, all the way up to the latest high-end (more than $1M) Unix servers from Sun, HP, IBM and Fujitsu.
[April 17, 2002, 15:11]
