Sun Microsystems Inc. on Wednesday will unveil the first product of its recently announced partnership with Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD): a blade server based on AMD's 1.53 GHz Mobile Athlon XP 1800+ processor. The Sun Fire B100 blade server will be the first AMD-based system designed by Sun, the company said.
Sun Microsystems Inc. plans to start selling a new, faster version of its 64-bit UltraSparc III microprocessor by the end of October, the company said in a statement issued Monday.