AMD Sues Intel for Antitrust Violations
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices decided this week that it had simultaneously had just about enough and not nearly enough. It did not have enough of the chip business relating to desktops, laptops, and servers, and it had had enough of what it alleges are anticompetitive practices from its rival, Intel. And so late Monday, AMD filed a complaint in U.S. Federal District Court in Delaware that alleges Intel is using its monopoly power to illegally maintain that monopoly. READ MORE >

Sun Gets First Dibs on New Opterons for Entry Workstation
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

There are benefits to being one of the dominant and most vocal supporters of the Opteron processor, and in the case of Sun Microsystems that means getting first dibs on the new socket 939 Opteron chips. To that end, Sun announced a new workstation using the chip this week at the JavaOne event in San Francisco. The machine, code-named "Marrakesh" and sold under the Ultra 20, is being aimed at developers. READ MORE >

AMD Readies Socket 939 Opteron, Debuts Top-End Athlon 64
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

In a move that shows Advanced Micro Devices is paying attention and will try every technical trick in the book to make its Athlon and Opteron processors desirable in a chip market dominated by rival Intel, AMD this week said that it would in the third quarter deliver a 64-bit, dual-core Opteron 100 Series processor that supports unbuffered memory and that plugs into the socket 939 slots that its Athlon processors currently plug into. READ MORE >

Sun Takes Java App Server Open Source
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Unix workstation and server vendor Sun Microsystems was founded two decades ago on a mix of open source technologies (such as the BSD variant of Unix) and of proprietary technologies (such as its own Sparc RISC processors), and it seems clear that Sun believes that its current business will be based more heavily on open source technologies than it has been in its past decade (the dot-com era when open systems was a sufficient definition of "open"). To that end, at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco this week, Sun announced it would release the code behind its Java System Application Server to the open source community. READ MORE >

   But Wait, There's More

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