According to a story in the Register, sun's next gen server chip "Rock" has been killed. The corresponding servers are also dead. The Sparc T series is still alive and generating revenue and Fujitsu is still pumping out Sparc64, so the future isn't dire, but I think it's fairly clear that SPARC as a chipset just went on the endangered species list. On the other hand, like they speculate in the articles, maybe it wasn't going to work technically or maybe they're cleaning house before the take over. Either way, the 'next generation' sparc is no more.
No comments:
Post a Comment