14 DAY TRIAL // Intel and Advanced Micro Devices are the companies whose chips are known best among consumers, but Oracle just launched a 16-core processor only to reportedly reveal that it is now looking to acquire major chip companies.
Just a short time ago, Oracle slammed the server processor market with its SPARC T3, a chip that has 16 cores.
This part can actually enable a massive performance thanks to the fact that each of its cores has eight threads, enabling 128 simultaneous threads for each CPU in a server.
With this release as the genuine proof that it is quite bent on advancing in the industrial computing field, Oracle is apparently making another move.
According to what recent marketing reports suggest, Oracle is actually intent on acquiring a major chip maker.
“You’re going to see us buying chip companies,” Ellison, 66, reportedly said yesterday at Oracle’s annual meeting in San Francisco.
IBM, NVIDIA and even Advanced Micro Devices are supposedly on the list of possible purchases, according to Gleacher & Co. analyst Doug Freedman.
“You’ve got to think it’s focused on enterprise hardware, on the server,” Freedman allegedly said. “AMD jumps off the screen.”
Such a move would be only slightly different form how Oracle already bought off the well-known server chip maker Sun Microsystems earlier this year.
The recent SPARC T3 was described as Oracle's way to keep its word that it would provide its customers with a twofold performance increase every two years.
What remains to be seen is just what company it ends up acquiring and how soon it can start to put its intellectual property to good use.
Of course, this is all still the company's intention, as no actual deals have even been alluded to as of yet, let alone made known to the general public.