Sun's New Java Partners.....From the Semiconductor pages of Electronic News: March 9, 1998 Issue
Sun Works With ASIC Vendors To Seed Java On Silicon
By Gale Morrison
From the article:"...IBM is licensing the Sun picoJava I processor core to offer all of its ASIC customers, while Sun has enlisted Lucent as an ASIC partner for design and fabrication of a new input/output (I/O) controller for its computers. Lucent Technologies picks up this Sun business from Symbios Logic, the IC company that Hyundai recently sold to the less broad supplier Adaptec..."
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"...Mr. Silvestri said that aside from this broader IBM agreement, Sun had licensed picoJava I to NEC, Fujitsu, LG Semicon and Rockwell with terms that were specific to those companies' needs, for example LG's planned screen phones....
"...Then, from Allentown, Lucent Technologies' Microelectronics group said it has received a contract to supply Sun Microsystems with a custom input/output (I/O) controller chip for use in Sun's next-generation Java technology systems, workstations and servers..."
"...The chip, which will be jointly designed by Sun and Lucent, will enable Universal Serial Bus (USB) and High-Speed Serial Bus (IEEE 1394) connections between the workstations and peripheral devices..."
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It look's like "JAVA" on the chip is becoming reality. Both the JVM (Java Virtural Machine) chip and the JAVA embedded system chip should be available in late 1998 or early 1999.
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