| Tuesday, January 23, 2007 |
| Sun to use Intel Xeon chips, Intel to distribute Sun Solaris |
It has all in it to be termed a landmark deal. Arch-rivals in the microprocessor industry, Sun Microsystems and Intel have inked an alliance. As per the deal, Intel's chips would power a Sun server product line, said reports.
The alliance has been described as historic and is expected to change the market for both the giants. Following the alliance, Intel would distribute and support Sun's Solaris operating system too. Significantly, the alliance has come as a body blow to Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), the bitterest of Intel's rivals. According to industry reports, the alliance makes sure that that Intel is one step ahead in its quest to regain a technological edge it had lost to AMD, along with market share, in the server segment of the industry.
Meanwhile the Sum Microsystems top brass sad that the company would would begin using Intel's Xeon processors in the most common "x86" servers late in the first half. It uses its own processor in more high-end servers where it competes with Intel's Itanium product.
Industry experts have predicted that with the Intel Xeon having a better performance and power consumption features as compared with the AMD Opteron, Sun can now look at using of Intel processors in its x86 server line.
For Intel, pulling back Sun Microsystems as a customer again is a biggest win since it persuaded Apple to switch to its processors in 2005.Labels: Tech |
| posted by a correspondent @ 12:45 AM |
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