Update on Oracle Layoffs

Re:Update on Oracle Layoffs by Tempest1981 on Monday December 19, 2016 @02:19AM (#13209993)

I had almost forgotten about the SPARC CPUs. Looks like they're approaching 4 GHz, using TSMCs fab.

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Re:Update on Oracle Layoffs by cmurf on Monday December 19, 2016 @02:33AM (#13210041)

And is open, not proprietary and royalty free.

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Re:Update on Oracle Layoffs by nraynaud on Monday December 19, 2016 @08:30AM (#13211225)

it looks like the ESA is doing development on OpenSPARC, the idea is that you need doubles for accurate space computations ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEON )

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Re:Update on Oracle Layoffs by tossedaway334 on Monday December 19, 2016 @08:29AM (#13211215)

while there is an openSPARC core (that is around 10 years old), SPARC in general is not "open, not proprietary and royalty free."

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Re:Update on Oracle Layoffs by cmurf on Monday December 19, 2016 @10:07PM (#13217105)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARC

Open Yes, and royalty free

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