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Software bugs and computer viruses were hackers' favorite means of taking over your computer. However, things could get a lot worse with the advent of a new threat, that aims directly at computers' hardware components. A group of researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign managed to hack ... |
16 April 2008
03:17 GMT |
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Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu have jointly announced the availability of a new family of SPARC servers that are alleged to be able to process 128 simultaneous threads. More than that, the two companies announced important improvements in energy-consumption and space efficiency.The newly-introduced offering is comprise... |
11 April 2008
04:06 GMT |
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Server manufacturer Sun Microsystems signed an educational, three-year partnership with the Chinese Ministry of Education. The new agreement aims at improving the quality of education in chip design using Sun's technology included in the Sparc processors. The agreement stipulates that at least 100 professors wil... |
27 February 2008
03:02 GMT |
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The ongoing International Solid State Circuits Conference unveiled some extremely juicy details about Intel's products and roadmap, and I'm sure that the party is far from being over. However, Intel may be an important guest, but let's not underestimate the other participants. Sun, for example is less ... |
5 February 2008
05:48 GMT |
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The business partnership between IBM and Sun Microsystems could be a lifesaver for the Solaris developing company that has just currently recovered from a long string of bad years. The partnership is all about running the Solaris operating system that is developed by Sun on top of x86 compatible hardware and not on t... |
20 August 2007
04:29 GMT |
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Apart form being the major Java language developer and maintainer, Sun Microsystems has a stake in computer hardware as well. Their computer architecture is not x86 compatible as it is designed to use the SPARC and UltraSPARC chips. The latest supercomputers from Sun, named generically Niagara and Rock are very impre... |
28 July 2007
04:31 GMT |
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In the server business market, Sparc processors have been around since the dawn of ages, but there have always been other competitors that took away from the processors' pride, there was IBM's Power PCs, Intel's Xeon and AMD's Opteron processors that put out a good fight, just enough for people to... |
17 April 2007
12:02 GMT |
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