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Sun Ditches UltraSparc V And Gemini
News Sun has stopped work on the UltraSparc V, a server chip that was supposed to come out late next year, and Gemini, a dual-core chip for Web servers, a company spokeswoman confirmed. The untimely death of the UltraSparc V and Gemini will in some ways...
[April 12, 2004, 10:15]
Sun To Push UltraSparc V Past 3GHz
News Sun Microsystems' UltraSparc V, two generations out from the newly introduced processor at the heart of the company's servers, will debut at 1.8GHz and extend past 3GHz, the company is expected to disclose on Tuesday.
[June 25, 2002, 9:37]
US Report: Analysts Sceptical Of Sun's Claims For Future Chip
News Sun Microsystems is promising UltraSPARC V, code-named Millennium, for volume shipment in the first quarter of the year 2000. In a recent presentation to resellers, Sun claimed UltraSPARC V will run at 1,000MHz with a 64KB/16MB cache, integer vs...
[August 5, 1998, 7:24]
Sun Chips Hit A Snag
News After UltraSparc V, Sun will build the CMT technology into the high-end family as well. David Yen, executive vice president of Sun's microprocessor group, said at a meeting with reporters on Tuesday that Sun's UltraSparc IV processor will emerge in...
[June 5, 2003, 7:39]
Sun And Fujitsu To Boost Sparc Speed
News Company representatives speaking at the Fall Processor Forum promised significant gains over the chips' predecessors — the first Niagara (now called UltraSparc T1) and the single-core Sparc64 V. The Sparc64 V and UltraSparc TI are built with...
[October 11, 2006, 9:20]
Fujitsu Turbocharges Server Chip
News But the Sun Fire products, which today use Sun's UltraSparc processor, currently have greater market share. Although Sun has agreed to incorporate Fujitsu's processors and independently scrapped its own UltraSparc V, it's also keeping some next...
[June 22, 2004, 9:00]
Sun Lights Chip Roadmap
News In the pipeline Sun disclosed several specific processor plans at the conference Tuesday: The UltraSparc IV processor, due later this year, has two cores etched onto the same slice of silicon. Sun said earlier this month that blade servers with...
[February 26, 2003, 9:28]
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]
Sun-Fujitsu Collaboration Plan Slips
News The company underestimated UltraSparc IV+ systems demand in the last quarter of 2005, and partly blamed this underestimation for its poor results that quarter. Although Olympus is a different design than the Sun UltraSparc IV+ processor it's...
[January 26, 2006, 10:20]
Sun Stakes Servers On Rock
News But the move was also an opportunity for Sun to move engineers to Rock by scrapping its work on UltraSparc V, inauspiciously code-named Millennium and originally expected years ago. Sun competitors have derided the Fujitsu partnership and...
[July 20, 2004, 9:15]
Sun And Fujitsu Merge Sparc Lines
News Sun and Fujitsu currently sell servers that use two different chip families, Sun's UltraSparc and Fujitsu's Sparc64. Sun's UltraSparc chips, one of several RISC (reduced instruction set computing) models on the market, have seen major competition...
[June 2, 2004, 8:40]
The Day Ahead: Sun Sets Platform For Future Growth
News The lynchpin of this Net Effect strategy is Sun's UltraSPARC III processor, which will power Sun's new line of workstations including the just announced Sun Blade 1000 and Sun Fire 280R. Sun execs made things clear for analysts -- odd number...
[September 28, 2000, 12:15]
UltraSparc III To Break 1GHz Barrier
News Sun Microsystems will refresh its workstation lineup with a 1.05GHz version of the UltraSparc III processor due early next year, the company said on Monday. UltraSparc III, introduced more than a year ago, is the foundation of a new line of servers...
[November 20, 2001, 11:34]
Sun's Latest Chips Near Completion
News For example, in 2004 it cancelled is much-delayed UltraSparc V processor, which had been inauspiciously code-named Millennium, and its UltraSparc III arrived years late. Sun said on Wednesday it will pass a significant development milestone in 2005...
[February 3, 2005, 15:40]
Sun Doubles Server Speeds
News Sun Microsystems will detail its high-end UltraSparc IV+ processor Tuesday, a chip code-named "Panther" that will roughly double the speed of servers using the current processor. Like the current UltraSparc IV, the UltraSparc IV+ will have two...
[October 5, 2004, 15:15]
Sun UltraSparc Chips Reach 1.2GHz
News Sun Microsystems will announce its highest-end microprocessor to date on Wednesday, a 1.2GHz UltraSparc III that consumes less power than its predecessors. TI also is working on a "dual-core" prototype that places two UltraSparc chips side-by-side...
[September 18, 2002, 7:54]
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. One key product is the UltraSparc IIIi, which likely will...
[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]
TI To Upgrade UltraSparc Manufacturing
News Texas Instruments has begun making Sun Microsystems' UltraSparc processors on a more advanced manufacturing process and has built prototypes of a major new design, key steps in keeping Sun's products competitive.
[July 18, 2002, 8:24]
Sun Brings UltraSparc IV To Low-end Servers
News The computer maker got that ball rolling with its UltraSparc IV chip, a dual-core processor that came out in March and now ships in about 50 percent of Sun's high-end Sun Fire servers, according to Sun executives who spoke at an informal press...
[September 13, 2004, 8:00]
