[geeks] Carly Fiorina to enter politics? This nation is doomed...

Joshua Boyd jdboyd at jdboyd.net
Thu Sep 9 09:26:16 CDT 2004


On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 10:27:20AM +0200, Jochen Kunz wrote:
> 
> > and AMD, UltraSPARC, PowerPC will be the winners by default.
> IIRC Sun canceled the US V. I asume they will go the AMD64 route sooner
> or later. It is simply too expensive to develop a CPU, that can deliver
> the same raw performance as an Intel or AMD CPU, for a "small" company
> like Sun or even SGI. Intel and AMD can do this. They spend lots of $$$
> for a new CPU design, but they sell a _lot_ more CPUs then Sun or SGI.

I was under the impression that Sun was planning to move to the SPARC64,
and work on that line, not dumping USPARC for AMD64.
 



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