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Sun teams with AMD
During Scott McNealy's keynote he announced that Sun Microsystems has struck a partnership with AMD to support the 64-bit AMD Opteron processors. Joined on stage by Hector Ruiz, president and CEO of AMD, McNealy briefly showed off two servers, 1U and 2U in height, which allegedly contained multiple Opteron processors. The two CEOs provided precious few details, but did say they'll ship beta units to customers later this year and expect volume shipment in the first half of next year.
Other than that bit, there wasn't much news. McNealy looked very fit and from time to time relied on flashcards, which was uncharacteristic for him. He made many Microsoft quips, and displayed his humor with a top ten We need another terabyte of storage fro the MP3 server. A colleague at IDG News Service is filing a more complete story on the keynote soon, so check our homepage for the full story. -- Scott Tyler Shafer
Posted by Tom Sullivan on November 17, 2003 11:57 AM
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