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Sun Microsystems Inc. is looking to ramp up
interest in its new UltraSPARC T1 processor by open-sourcing parts of
the multicore chip.
At the company's quarterly event
Tuesday in New York City, Chairman Scott McNealy introduced the
OpenSPARC project. Sun will publish specifications for the
chipformerly code-named Niagaraincluding the design source,
verification suite and simulation models.
Sun Microsystems Inc. is looking to ramp up
interest in its new UltraSPARC T1 processor by open-sourcing parts of
the multicore chip.
At the company's quarterly event
Tuesday in New York City, Chairman Scott McNealy introduced the
OpenSPARC project. Sun will publish specifications for the
chipformerly code-named Niagaraincluding the design source,
verification suite and simulation models.
In addition, Sun, based in Santa Clara,
Calif., will publish the instruction set specification for UltraSPARC
Architecture 2005 and a Solaris port, McNealy said.
The move follows other
initiatives to open up chip designs, and is patterned on the
open-source drive that brought the Linux operating system to the
computing world.
"If it works in software,
why wouldn't it work for processors?" McNealy asked during a
question-and-answer session with reporters and analysts following the
two-hour event.
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