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Sun's Sparc Chip: "The reports of my death have been greatly exagerated..."

May 13, 2009

Analysis of:Ellison Insists Sun's Sparc Still Has a Future | seekingalpha.com

Larry Ellison will not kill and/or disinvest in Sun's Sparc architecture. 1) Oracle's data base software runs very efficiently on Sparc and especially on the newer CMT (Chip Multi-Threading) Niagara architecture. 2) The next generation 16 core CMT processor, code named ROCK, is due out this fall and incorporates innovative speedup technology that Oracle can leverage 3) CMT chips are much more power-efficient per unit of work accomplished than Intel or AMD based X86 architecture chips 4) Larry Ellison's core mantra is that hardware and software designed together is always more efficient and elegant than systems designed in isolation. ...And, Larry can do this without sacrificing Oracle's historically high margins!

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