Sun Microsystems, Inc. and the Ministry of Education (MOE) for the People's Republic of China today announced a three-year collaboration agreement designed to meet China's demand for cultivating integrated circuit (IC) engineering talent and industry development. The agreement is based on Sun's OpenSPARC(TM) program. MOE selected OpenSPARC because it is the basis for the fastest microprocessor in the world, and Sun is the only major processor vendor to freely offer its designs to the open source community. Both the OpenSPARC T1 and OpenSPARC T2 processor RTL (register transfer level) files can be downloaded at www.opensparc.net.

“We appreciate Sun's open source strategy, especially Sun's outstanding contribution in the open-sourced IC area, and we encourage the active cooperation effort between China's universities and Sun in the teaching and research area,” said Prof. Zhao Qinping, vice minister of MOE. “We believe the cooperation will be beneficial in advancing China's teaching and research level in the IC area.”

For more details, read:

• The press release
• EE Times
• Mercury News
• Watch the Video from KTSF Channel 26 interviewing Joe Hartley about the agreement
   

Video excerpts from the WWERC

Scott McNealy (Sun OpenSPARC)
Excerpts from Scott McNealy's keynote speech at the Education and Research Conference 2008 about OpenSPARC and partnership with the Chinese Ministry of Education. (2:56)

ERC Highlights - Dr. James Hoe
Excerpts from Education and Research Conference 2008, Dr. James Hoe's highlights from the Panel Discussion at the ERC. (7:27)

Scott McNealy and Xu Ming
Excerpts from Scott McNealy's keynote speech at the Education and Research Conference 2008 about OpenSPARC and partnership with the Chinese Ministry of Education. (3:58)

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