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This was very suprising and kills a lot of rumors. They will be releasing their new hardware, but no AMDs included.
This was very suprising and kills a lot of rumors. They will be releasing their new hardware, but no AMDs included.
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To counter the threat of the upcoming 64 bit Opteron and the Itanium family, SUN's tactic is two fold. In the Summer of 2003 we will (finally!) see the USIIIi platform which should be priced very aggressively. SUN believes the USIIIi is a much more cost effective solution than it's USIII platform. The integrated L2-cache (instead of big off die SRAM caches) and memory controller make the CPU a lot cheaper to produce. And the platform will use high volume interfaces and busses such as IDE and SCSI harddisks instead of the more expensive fibre channel harddisks. The USIIIi platform will also use standard DDR RAM. While SUN is very late with the USIIIi (low end), the USIV, their next dual core high end CPU project seems to be doing well and should be on the market at the end of this year.