David Yen Quotations

We are pricing our systems very, very competitively, even compared with the x86 standard.

We're in a new cycle of innovation for SPARC that delivers incredible performance gains, ... Scalable high performance processing, combined with the same power consumption, footprint and price as previous generations, make the new Sun Fire servers the ideal platform for server consolidation.

Niagara is not expected to overlap with OPL, but Rock will. Rock comes out in 2008, but the APL agreement expires in 2008.

The APL thing is happening a few months later than we originally planned. You can expect low end four- and eight-way systems will probably happen sooner. There's still a chance that will happen before the end of the year. High-end 16-, 32- and 64-way systems probably will happen in the early part of next year.

You can expect both of those to tape out within this year. When we tape out, we expect a smooth ride.

We basically want to make sure that all the ground is covered.

We are executing very well on the Niagara program. We would really like to show all the evidence we have, not just some virtual benchmarks.

SPARC for some time has not been highly regarded for various reasons. We adopted a completely different design philosophy.

As part of the manufacturing process, there are some processors with less than eight cores but still with very impressive performance. We will be offering the Niagara-based boxes primarily with eight cores and six cores, and we may start with four cores.

This calendar year, on the T2000 and T1000, we will introduce our first generation of virtualization to bring people beyond the container technology Solaris 10 already offers. We have real customers demanding it.

The continued build-out of the Internet has resulted in massive, inefficient server farms that run too hot and take up too much space. Given the extreme performance increase and low power consumption of our new Sun Fire servers, any company that has a web, application or database server farm based on Intel Xeon servers needs to test the Sun Fire T1000 or T2000 servers immediately and see the unmatched price/performance and energy savings for themselves.