Sun upgrades servers with UltraSparc IV debut

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Sun innovating? They are just using TI's new Fab to make room for cache

There are many things to consider:
1) Sun has a history of performance improvment claims that are not true. i.e. SparcIV 180% over SparcIII....woops or was that 90% per SPARCIII core
2) SPARC has the slowest interconnect speed in the market at 150MHz. That means it takes 10 CPU cycles to talk outside the chip. And memory is incredibly slow.
3) They are exiting the Chip business as you can buy Fujitsu on Sun's web site already
4) Sun is now #3 in revenue world-wide for Unix
5) It takes 4 to 6 SparcIVs to equal a Power 5 today so if SPARCIV+ is to double you would need 2 to 3 per Power5
6) Niagra and Rock....what ever happend to the first CMT chip Gemini...oh it was cancelled because of poor performance
7) Niagra is actually 8 simplied SPARCII cores? wow back to the 1990's
8) Sun's only future is if they can get competitive advantage with AMD, but it looks like right now the only advantage they have is a care less for the truth marketing department.

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