Sun will use Intel chips

Sun Microsystems has agreed to use Intel microprocessors in some of its servers. A decision marked an important victory for Intel before rivaling AMD.

According to an unnamed source, the statement will be announced by Sun later today. This is a very meaningful "score" for Intel, struggling to cope with the declining profitability and the gradual market share falling into rival AMD.

In fact, Intel began to lose ground to AMD a few years ago, when customers switched to using AMD-designed chips thanks to more energy-saving advantages. During those years, Sun was always a close partner of AMD. They use only the server chip based on AMD's x86 design.

However, according to the new agreement, Sun will expand to use Intel chips inside a number of new servers, along with the installation of AMD chips.

Last year, after losing more than 5% of computer chip market share to AMD, Intel immediately announced a new line of chips with improved design, which, according to observers, not only achieves higher performance but more heat dissipation is also less.

Another provision of this agreement between Intel and Sun is that Intel will endorse Sun's Solaris operating system. This is considered an important victory for Sun Microsystems, since the vast majority of servers using the current x86 chip run Microsoft or Windows operating systems.

According to the plan, Sun will announce the second quarterly financial results for the year on Wednesday. Like Intel, Sun is in a difficult time. But if the chip giant only lost profits, Sun had to struggle to get up after collapsing under the dot-com bubble. Since 2002, Sun has lost more than $ 5 billion.

Trong Cam