Friday, September 24th 2010
Oracle in Market for a Major Chipmaker
Oracle corporation is on a big buying spree after this year's acquisition of Sun Microsystems, a prominent server builder. Oracle wants to strengthen its enterprise IT business with the acquisition of a major chip-maker, right now AMD, IBM (its processor division), and NVIDIA are being named by prominent analysts. "You're going to see us buying chip companies," Ellison, 66, said yesterday at Oracle's annual meeting in San Francisco. Currently its subsidiary, Sun Microsystems has its own processor architecture, the SPARC. Gleacher & Co. analyst Doug Freedman predicts Oracle is chasing AMD, IBM (chip division) and NVIDIA. "You've got to think it's focused on enterprise hardware, on the server," he said. "AMD jumps off the screen."
Source:
Bloomberg
31 Comments on Oracle in Market for a Major Chipmaker
As long as a buy of nvidia did not disrupt their gpu releases then i would be happy as i really want amd and nvidia to battle it out with the 28nm gpu's.
AMD is the better buy IMHO, CPU, GPU, APU, x86 license all in one.
Intel may try to block this, but the Feds should have the final say.
Sun actually killed their own UltraSPARC line in favor of Fujitsu's SPARC64 CPU.
So while Sun still developes many thread CPU's for highly parallel software, they use Fujitsu CPU's for normal workload. They co-develop many of their server technologies (because of the SPARC relationship).
Firstly, why on earth would Oracle want to buy IBM's CPU division? That's POWER or PowerPC. Nothing they would touch.
AMD's x86 license is, as far as I know, still not transferable.
nVidia for Tesla?? Maybe.
If you want to know more about SPARC64 CPU's, this is their latest and greatest:
www.hotchips.org/archives/hc21/3_tues/HC21.25.500.ComputingAccelerators-Epub/HC21.25.51A.Maruyama-Fujitsu-Octo-Core-VIIIfx.pdf
read the whole article here and enjoy.