Record Demand for Low-Cost, High-Performance
Workstations and Highly-Reliable Servers Fuels Growth
in the 64-bit Market.
SAN JOSE, Calif. - August 19, 1998
- Sun Microsystems,
Inc. today announced that its Original Equipment Manufacturers
(OEMs) have shipped systems containing the one millionth
UltraSPARCTM microprocessor. This achievement, occurring
in just
over three years, represents one of the shortest amounts
of time
that any enterprise-class microprocessor architecture has
reached
this milestone. In addition, the UltraSPARC architecture
is the first
64-bit compute architecture to reach this level of market
acceptance.
Reaching this milestone with an enterprise-class microprocessor
demonstrates the demand for the type of highly reliable,
highly
scalable and highly available offerings that the UltraSPARC
architecture enables. In addition, the rate of UltraSPARC
shipments
continues to grow, creating an enormous opportunity for
application
developers looking to bring SPARCTM processor and SolarisTM
operating environment-based applications to market.
"With this achievement, Sun can rightly claim to be
the leader in
offering 64-bit processor solutions. The industry is already
discovering that experience counts," said Mel Friedman,
president,
Microelectronics, Sun Microsystems, Inc. "And, in 1999,
the even
more powerful, and truly revolutionary, UltraSPARC-III
microprocessor will be available. The compute power in a
1,000-way UltraSPARC-III system can deliver 2.4 trillion
operations per second, a more than 2,500 percent increase
over
what we can deliver in our 64-way UltraSPARC-II systems
today."
"This is a significant milestone in Sun's history,"
said Masood
Jabbar, president of Computer Systems, Sun Microsystems,
Inc.
"Contributing to this success is the rapid acceptance
of our new
low-cost, high-performance UltraTM 5 and Ultra 10 workstations.
We are ecstatic about the overwhelming customer response
to
these powerful new workstations and anticipate their continued
success to contribute significantly to our selling the next
million
UltraSPARC processors."
The UltraSPARC-I microprocessor was first introduced in
1995 at
143 MHz. It featured 5.2 million transistors and was produced
in a
0.5 micron technology. Today, the UltraSPARC-II processor
is
shipping at 360 MHz (with room to move up to 500 MHz), has
6
million transistors and utilizes a 0.25 micron process.
The
UltraSPARC-III processor, expected to sample later this
year,
should start at 600 MHz, have more than 16 million transistors
and
be produced in an advanced 0.18 micron process*.
About Sun Microsystems,
Inc.
Since its inception in 1982, a singular
vision, "The Network Is The
ComputerTM," has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc.
(NASDAQ:SUNW) to its position as a leading provider of high
quality hardware, software and services for establishing
enterprise-wide intranets and expanding the power of the
Internet.
With more than $9.5 billion in annual revenues, Sun can
be found
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