Sun Kills Rock CPU, Says NYT Report 190
BBCWatcher writes "Despite Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's recent statement that his company will continue Sun's hardware business, it won't be with Sun processors (and associated engineering jobs). The New York Times reports that Sun has canceled its long-delayed Rock processor, the next generation SPARC CPU. Instead, the Times says Sun/Oracle will have to rely on Fujitsu for SPARCs (and Intel otherwise). Unfortunately Fujitsu is decreasing its R&D budget and is unprofitable at present. Sun's cancellation of Rock comes just after Intel announced yet another delay for Tukwila, the next generation Itanium, now pushed to 2010. HP is the sole major Itanium vendor. Primary beneficiaries of this CPU turmoil: IBM and Intel's Nehalem X86 CPU business."
RPS (Score:5, Funny)
Sun Kills Rock CPU, Says NYT Report
Sun has instead moved on to develop the superior Paper CPU while critics argue about the hypothetical "Scissors CPU" that competitors may be secretly developing.
Actually it was crap (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Very Interesting... (Score:5, Funny)
You may want to check your internet connection, I think your post has ended up in an alternate-universe Slashdot. How's the economy over there?
IBM bought Sun? (Score:5, Funny)
Oracle is gonna be pissed.
Sun kills Rock? (Score:4, Funny)
Wait, so if sun kills rock, sun burns paper, and sun melts scissors... SUN IS INVINCIBLE!
I'm sorry, what? (Score:2, Funny)
Intel announced yet another delay for Tukwila, the next generation Itanium
Please tell me that's not an actual product name. (apologies [slashdot.org])
Re:Very Interesting... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:RPS (Score:3, Funny)
Actually, the real problem is that Rock CPU faced off with Guts CPU, Bomb CPU, Fire CPU, and Ice CPU, but hasn't been able to handle Cut CPU.
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critics argue about the hypothetical "Scissors CPU" that competitors may be secretly developing
I've seen the supposed specs for the scissors cpu, and I can attest that rock would have absolutely crushed it.
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Re:What are these architectures good for... (Score:2, Funny)
I totally agree with you!
Now excuse me while I go pitch a Windows ME + celery + mySQL solution to eBay and give them the 'real' facts.