Sun's Rock processor on track for this year, exec says

10.03.2009

Sun, along with other chip makers, is continuously adding cores to chips for more processing power. Intel and Advanced Micro Devices offer quad-core chips for servers, and Intel is due to come out with an eight-core server chip codenamed Nehalem-EX later this year. Sun's chips also compete with IBM's Power6 processors and Intel's Itanium chips.