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Sun Moves Into Commodity Silicon 236

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday August 07, 2007 @06:07PM from the whole-lotta-threads dept.

Samrobb writes "According to Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz, Sun has decided to release its UltraSPARC T2 processor under the GPL. Schwartz writes, 'We're announcing the fastest microprocessor we've ever shipped this week — delivering 89.6 Ghz of parallel computing power on a single chip — running standard Java applications and open source OS's. Simultaneously, we've said we're entering the commodity marketplace, and opening the chip up to our competition... To add fuel to the fire, the blueprints for our UltraSPARC T2... the core design files and test suites, will be available to the open source community, via its most popular license: the GPL.'" Sun is still working on getting these released; early materials are up on OpenSPARC.net.

Which Google Should Congress Believe? 428

Posted by Zonk on Friday July 20, 2007 @12:41PM from the playing-with-the-big-boys-now dept.

theodp writes "In Congressional testimony last month, Google's VP of People Operations told the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration that, due to limits on the number of H-1B visas, Google is regularly unable to pursue highly qualified candidates. But as Google stock tumbled in after hours trading Wednesday, Google's CEO blamed disappointing profits on a hiring binge and promised Wall Street analysts that the company would keep a careful eye on headcount in the future. So which Google should Congress believe?"

Comment Re:bleh (Score 1) 238

by Quixotic137 on Tuesday April 10, 2007 @09:07PM (#18684333) Attached to: New Way to Patch Defective Hardware

But I dont know. Something tells me that if there is a hardware problem(not a hardware design problem) then it is likly that there will be others on the same chip, due too some non uniform distribution of impure silicon. and it wouldnt be long before there are too many corrections to fit in the fpga.

I think this would only be used to fix a design problem. Defects in silicon are spread randomly across the wafer, meaning that the fault(s) in each faulty chip are not the same. It would not be worth the effort to track down where the defect was and create new logic to avoid it just to fix one chip on the wafer.

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