Sun Ships New AMD-Based Server, Workstations

Sun, Santa Clara, Calif., is billing the workstations as a good solution for "multithreaded technical applications and for running large technical workloads on a desktop," the company said in a statement.

Both companies have been touting their relationship as milestones. Sun's decision to build new, strategic products with AMD's processor was viewed as new territory for the vendor, which had largely steered away from anything but its own, proprietary chips until it inked an alliance with AMD last year. For Sunnyvale, Calif.-based AMD, it marked significant acceptance of its then-new, 64-bit processor by a tier-one vendor that previously largely eschewed its platform. Both companies have also said they will see long-term gains from joint development of technology.