Intel wages chip war with Sun
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
As Intell this month marks the one-year anniversary of the debut of its first 64-bit Itanium processor, the chip maker is sharpening its aim on Sun's server install base, intent on toppling Sun's UltraSparc processor fortunes. Intel's aggression toward Sun for stubbornly remaining the only non-Intel computer maker in the industry surfaced only a few weeks ago at Intel's Spring Analyst Meeting at the company's headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif. Intel executives took open shots at Sun, charging, among other things, that Sun was losing billions of dollars to Intel because customers were choosing Intel's less-expensive commodity-grade processors over Sun's pricier, RISC-based chips.