[clug] Sun Accelerates Growth of UltraSPARC(R) CMT Eco System; Releas...hnology Centers of Excellence: Financial News -Yahoo! Finance [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Roppola, Antti - BRS Antti.Roppola at brs.gov.au
Wed Dec 12 02:26:00 GMT 2007


Makes sense. You're not going to compete with Sun unless you are able to
turn chip designs into silicon and I can't see Intel and AMD rushing to
incorporate GPL'ed features into their own designs. In the mean time,
universities start churning out grads who are familiar with Sparc.

Maybe they aspire to somehting like the Morotola 68000 in tems of
educational ubiquity.

It also tells you something about Sun's assessment of how robust the GPL
is for protecting their work.

Wilkl this lead to Intel and AMD having issues avoiding their work being
contaminated by GPL'ed ideas seen by graduates? Interesting...

Antti

Rainer Klein wrote:

> Has anyone seen this announcement?

"""
Sun Accelerates Growth of UltraSPARC(R) CMT Eco System; Releases
OpenSPARC(TM)
T2 Processor RTL to Open Source Community and Joins Five Major
Universities in Launch of OpenSPARC Technology Centers of Excellence

	http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/071211/20071211005737.html?.v=1

Free Download of World's First Eight Core, 64-Thread Processor Available
Today Under GPL License """

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