Sun Microsystems has discontinued development of two planned chips as it retrenches in a difficult era for the company.
Santa Clara, Calif.-based Sun has stopped work on the UltraSparc V, a server chip that was supposed to come out late next year, and Gemini, a dual-core chip for Web servers, a company spokeswoman confirmed.
"In order to get back to profitability, we have to make some difficult choices," the spokeswoman said.
The untimely death of the UltraSparc V and Gemini will in some ways simplify Sun's future and its throughput computing initiative, which seeks to boost data throughput in processors
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