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PC Pro, UK: Sun cancels Rock processor
The UltraSparc-RK chip, codenamed Rock, consisted of 16 cores and was intended to compete with Intel in the server processor market. Several release dates have come and gone with no sign of a commercial product, and the company is now thought to have ended development entirely.
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- News Source: The Motley Fool | 5 months agoRock was supposed to be a next-generation chip featuring many "cores" -- i.e., separate processing units strung together on a single chip, or "die" -- and thereby capable of crunching reams of data very efficiently. Think of it as similar to Cell,...
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- News Source: Uinta County News | 5 months agoThe UltraSparc-RK chip, codenamed Rock, consisted of 16 cores and was intended to compete with Intel in the server processor market. Several release dates have come and gone with no sign of a commercial product, and the company is now thought to have...
- News Source: International Business Times | 5 months agoSun, which has agreed to sell itself to software giant Oracle Corp for about $7 billion, had invested more than five years and billions of dollars in the project, according to the newspaper. It had hoped to use the home-brewed chips in new machines,...
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