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Sun and the development of their Rock processor
Sun’s development Rock processor was a troubled project that may never have stood a chance, analysts said following reports that the chip had been axed.
Earlier this week, the New York Times reported that Sun had cut development of the 16-core Rock chips, which were designed to go into high-end servers. The multithreaded processor would have doubled the core count from Sun’s fastest server processor today, the eight-core UltraSparc T2, and was targeted at enterprise servers to process data-intensive applications like databases.
Rock’s development had been a high-priority project within Sun, and the company poured plenty of money into its development. Sun had high expectations for the chip, which blended high multithreading capabilities with quick instruction processing. Rock was originally due for release in 2008, but Sun said last year that it had delayed the release until the second half of 2009.
The Sun platform continues as does the demand for their operating system, so many customers have committed to the platform, we’ll need to see how things continue moving forward, but we have to examine the market place for the processor platform – we only need to develop processors that are demanded by the end user community. If we only sell so many high-end servers, would the investment not be better spent at the lower/middle end of the market where so many customers purchase systems? It’s all a mute debate, Sun/Oracle will be working on what’s best for revenues, their end user community and the Rock platform long term, an interesting read, do check it out.
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