Sun Microsystems has launched a new business unit to sell its Sparc processors, a return to an idea it had dropped years ago.
Sun Microsystems has cancelled its lower-end UltraSparc IIIi+ "Serrano" processor, choosing instead to focus its priorities on alternatives including its more radical "Niagara" chip family.
Sun Microsystems' "Niagara 2" processor will be able to run 64 simultaneous instruction sequences, twice that of its predecessor, when it debuts in servers during the second half of 2007, a Sun engineer said on Tuesday.
Sun Microsystems' ambitions have grown another size larger.
Sun Microsystems plans to release servers based on its future high-end Rock processors by 2008, signaling the company's long-term commitment to the embattled Sparc family.
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