Sun buys Montalvo and its x86 CPUs Posted on 28/04/2008 at 12:58 by Nicolas
- source: eWeek
Sun, to which we notably owe the JAVA programming language, has announced having acquired Montalvo Systems, a Silicon Valley start-up. This company was recently much talked about for its project involving x86 asymmetrical core based CPUs, a little like the Cell, and whose aim was to offer an attractive performance/consumption ratio. The other side of the picture was that Montalvo was running low on cash and hadn’t offered any products yet.
You may recall that Sun specializes in servers and it notably uses Intel’s Xeon CPUs or Opterons from AMD. It also sells machines equipped with its own RISC processors, the Ultra SPARC. We will just have to see what this Californian giant’s exact intentions are when the low consumption x86 CPU market is looking more promising than ever.
Sun, to which we notably owe the JAVA programming language, has announced having acquired Montalvo Systems, a Silicon Valley start-up. This company was recently much talked about for its project involving x86 asymmetrical core based CPUs, a little like the Cell, and whose aim was to offer an attractive performance/consumption ratio. The other side of the picture was that Montalvo was running low on cash and hadn’t offered any products yet.