Fujitsu offloads chipmaking to Taiwan

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Anonymous Coward

Fujitsu is ready to end of life SPARC64 #

Posted Friday 1st May 2009 00:56 GMT

SPARC is the latest in a long line of processors to be discontinued. MIPS, Alpha, PA-RISC.

It was obvious whoever buy's Sun will kill the Fujitsu systems by increasing Solaris fees to cash cow the business.

Captain Thyratron

@AC 2009.05.01 00:19 GMT #

Posted Friday 1st May 2009 04:59 GMT

Are you a bot?

Rob Moss

EOL? I doubt it #

Posted Friday 1st May 2009 04:59 GMT

Fujitsu have a vested interest in SPARC/SPARC64. Fujitsu have been manufacturing the latest Sun servers such as the Mx000 range

Oracle purchased Sun so that they could control the Solaris OS better, as many DBAs chose Solaris as their platform of choice for Oracle Databases.

Sun and Oracle had a falling out since Sun purchased MySQL, and purchasing Sun means that Oracle now have an entire software/hardware platform for their Database

Anonymous Coward

Sparc64 #

Posted Friday 1st May 2009 04:59 GMT

Why would they go to the expense of moving the fabrication of a chip that they intend to discontinue? BTW --- Sun has never fabricated SPARC chips itself and Taiwan is already one source of SPARC chips. This move actually makes sense.

hapticz

Biggest conglomerate? #

Posted Friday 1st May 2009 05:53 GMT

is the chinese government, annexing every last inch of soil and beyond...

Anonymous Coward

When you own the OS you own anything that wants to run it #

Posted Friday 1st May 2009 13:07 GMT

Oracle has Fujitsu by the balls and they know it. Sun's mismanagement is being replace by Oracles profit engine. A big portion of that $1.5B in profit the first year is coming from Fujitsu.

Anonymous Coward

Re: Are you a bot? #

Posted Friday 1st May 2009 15:34 GMT

Probably just Matt waiting in his bedroom for Sun related articles so he can leap in with HP FUD!

Sun have used TI for years so there's no reason why Fujitsu shouldn't do similar & have lower (shared) foundry costs to get higher profits on chips made. AMD are doing the same with GlobalFoundries spinoff, hoping someone else leaps in, I think IBM may be in with them already.

As comparison HP sold off their entire chip designers in 2004 to Intel, they don't even design any more let alone spin out the FAB to a third party, getting close to Dells model as an assembler.

Anonymous Coward

HP has chip designers #

Posted Friday 1st May 2009 19:12 GMT

HP has to invest in the SX2000 chipset to support Itanic and the new windjammer chipset to support Tukwila . What most people don't realize is Tukwila is late because HP had problems with Windjammer. You dont bring out a new chip when your 95%+ marketshare partner does not have the chipset chip working and Nehalem kills it in the entry space. Intel took the opportunity to add DDR3 memory to Tukwila and the blame for being late. How nice of them.

SGI is gone from the Itanic market. Unisys will not do Tukwila. That leaves Group Bull, Hitachi and Fujitsu who have never sold enough units to justify the expense so I would expect them to not have Tukwila system either.

Anonymous Coward

Yeah I heard that from our HP rep #

Posted Sunday 3rd May 2009 07:33 GMT

Where is Matt Bryant? What is his excuse for Tukwila being a year late and Intel taking 3 months to admit it would even be late?

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