Sun Microsystems, New Zealand http://nz.sun.com/

Hope you're not in New Zealand where the NWO has consolidated their computer
systems, or in Australia with their DoD weapons systems which rely on Sun
Microsystems to deploy those weapon systems:

http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS85432+24-Mar-2008+BW20080324

Sun Microsystems Awarded $44 Million Department of Defense Contract to
Develop Microchip...

Mon Mar 24, 2008 9:00am EDT

Sun Microsystems Awarded $44 Million Department of Defense Contract to
Develop Microchip Interconnect System

DARPA Project Advances Chip Communications Via Proximity and
Optical Connections to Create Potential for Virtual Supercomputer From
Network of Low-Cost Chips

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced that the
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded Sun
$44.29 million funding for a five and a half-year research project
focused on microchip interconnectivity via on-chip optical networks
enabled by Silicon photonics and proximity communication. Part of
DARPA's Ultraperformance Nanophotonic Intrachip Communication program,
the project commences with an incremental delivery of $8.1 million to
Sun Microsystems' Microelectronics and Laboratories divisions. For
more information on research projects at Sun, visit
www.research.sun.com.

Building on research done under DARPA's High Productivity
Computing Systems program, Sun's new project will accelerate the
development of lower cost, high performance and high productivity
systems. The project presents a unique opportunity to develop
supercomputers through interconnecting an array of low-cost chips,
with the potential to overcome the fundamental cost and performance
limits of scaling up today's large computer systems. By providing
unprecedented high bandwidth, low latency, and low power
interconnections between the parallel computing chips in such an
array, this research project will help enable a broad class of
companies and organizations to utilize applications with high compute
and communication requirements, such as energy exploration,
biotechnology and weather modeling.

"Optical communications could be a truly game-changing technology
-- an elegant way to continue impressive performance gains while
completely changing the economics of large-scale silicon production,"
said Greg Papadopoulos, chief technology officer and executive vice
president of research and development for Sun. "Congratulations to Sun
Labs and Microelectronics teams for their constructive creativity and
for driving innovation into the semiconductor marketplace."

Sun's program combines optical signaling with Proximity
Communication, its key chip-to-chip I/O technology, to construct
arrays of low-cost chips in a single virtual "macrochip." Such an
aggregation of inexpensive chips looks and performs like a single chip
of enormous size, thus extending Moore's Law; it also avoids soldered
chip connections to enable lower total system cost. Long connections
across the macrochip leverage the low latency, high bandwidth, and low
power of silicon optics, and through this program Sun and DARPA will
research technologies to dramatically further reduce the cost of these
optical connections. The result is a virtual supercomputer.

"DARPA's UNIC (Ultraperformance Nanophotonic Intrachip
Communications) program will demonstrate high performance photonic
technology for high bandwidth, on-chip, photonic communications
networks for advanced (greater than or equal to 10 trillion
operations/second) microprocessors. By restoring the balance between
computation and communications, the program will significantly enhance
DoD's capabilities for applications such as Image Processing,
Autonomous Operations, Synthetic Aperture Radar, as well as
supercomputing," said Dr. Jag Shah, program manager in DARPA's
Microsystems Technology Office.

Accelerating Innovation to Extend Moore's Law

The historic accuracy of Moore's Law, which predicts a periodic
doubling of the number of transistors that can cost-effectively build
on a single chip, is partly behind the impressive growth of
microprocessor performance over the last 30 years. Today, though,
continued improvements are slowing down, as power and size constraints
limit the growth of chip clock frequencies. Boosting computer
performance by accumulating hundreds or thousands of cores per chip
allows users to exploit massively parallel execution, but it also
requires large increases in the number of transistors on a chip, and
hence an unconstrained continuation of Moore's Law. However, as Dr.
Gordon Moore himself predicted long ago, economic limits on the global
financial investment in semiconductors are now slowing down Moore's
Law.

About Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global
marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network is the
Computer" -- Sun drives network participation through shared
innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can
be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at sun.com.

Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo and The Network Is The
Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems,
Inc. in the United States and other countries.

Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Carolyn Rohrer, 415-294-5084
carolyn.rohrer@sun.com
or
Bite Communications for Sun
Cate Hanley, 415-365-0477
cate.hanley@bitepr.com

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Sun Microsystems Under Pressure
August 24, 2008

Sun Microsystems is under pressure after losing profits and share value,
after it offered up worse than expected guidance, which reflects the
company's dangerous reliance on U.S. sales in a volatile economy. Its narrow
footprint is weighing down...

3 weeks ago from Forbes
http://www.forbes.com/2008/08/01/sun-microsystems-closer-markets-equity-cx_mlm_0801markets33...
More-articles Sun's profit plunges 73%%
stock price fell 12.3 percent to $9.32 on Friday, continuing its long slide
from a high of $25.04 in October. Struggling in the face of an economic
slowdown and shifting market trends, Sun Microsystems reported Friday that
revenue dropped slightly...

3 weeks ago from The San Jose Mercury News
http://www.mercurynews.com/technotebook/ci_10077292?source=rss
Sun Microsystems Profit Falls 73%% as Customers Cut Spending
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Profit at Sun Microsystems, the computer server maker,
declined 73 percent in the most recent quarter as slumping sales to big
American companies and reorganization charges weighed on the server and
software maker.

3 weeks ago from The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/02/technology/02suns.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
Sun's stock drops sharply after 73%% drop in profit
3 weeks ago from BetaNews

US Spending Slams Sun's Q4
3 weeks ago from Byte and Switch
http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=160594&f_src=byteandswitch_defa...

Sun Microsystems sees rough year, shares fall
3 weeks ago from Times of India
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/Sun_Microsystems_sees_rough_year_shares...


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