Oracle Making New SPARC Workstations?

[lol123]

(I wasn't sure where to put this thread but the CPU forum seemed to me to be the closest fit. If it's not then I'd appreciate if it was moved to the correct subforum)

I came across an interesting piece of information in an article about the new E7 series Xeons:

Intel, at least for now, is clearly king of the hill. Bulldozer will need to deliver in spades to hit the Xeon 5600 / E7 products, Oracle is busy with new workstations based on UltraSPARC, and IBM's core mainframe business—it's tasty, tasty, mainframe business—is Intel's primary target.

http://hothardware.com/Reviews/Inte...s-MissionCritical-Servers/Default.aspx?page=2

I have not been able find any other information on the internet about Oracle making new SPARC-based workstations. Is this a weird mistake on the part of the author or have any of you heard anything about this?

 

[Idontcare]

SUN was quite busy developing their 40nm CPU's at the time when Oracle bought them. It is not beyond the realm of expectation that Oracle continued that work.

They need to unless they intend to let the SPARC business itself wither and die on the vine, in which case one might question why they would bother to buy SUN in the first place.

 

[lol123]

Well yes, and I have every expectation for that work to continue, but I thought it would be all about making servers. Is there really even a market to speak of for SPARC-based workstations?

 

[Idontcare]

I had not realized that SUN released their 40nm Sparc T3.

http://www.oracle.com/us/products/s...terprise/t-series/sparc-t3-chip-ds-173097.pdf

As for workstations, I don't know what market exists for sparc-based workstations. Ellison cancelled Rock which should have meant the end of the workstation like unless they are planning to use Fujitsu Sparc chips?

At the start, Ellison shut down one of Schwartz's pet projects -- development of the "Rock" microprocessor for Sun's high-end SPARC server line, a semiconductor that had struggled in development for five years as engineers sought to overcome a string of technical problems. "This processor had two incredible virtues: It was incredibly slow and it consumed vast amounts of energy. It was so hot that they had to put about 12 inches of cooling fans on top of it to cool the processor," said Ellison. "It was just madness to continue that project."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/05/12/us-oracle-idUSTRE64B5YX20100512