Sun And Toshiba Corporation To Jointly Define And Develop Low-Power Sun Java Chip Aimed At Enabling Wide Range Of Power-Sensitive Applications 2 April, 1997
SAN FRANCISCO -- Sun Microsystems, Inc., and Toshiba Corporation today announced at the JavaOne conference that they have entered into a letter of intent under which the companies propose to work on the joint definition and development of a low-power version of Sun's JavaChip Under the planned agreement, Sun would be the exclusive merchant supplier of this chip and plans to target the device at low-power applications including advanced hand-held devices, laptops and other mobile applications. Toshiba will provide its expertise and know-how regarding low-power chip design in order to adapt the Java "We are especially pleased with this partnership because Toshiba brings world class expertise in the development of low-power technologies," stated Raj Parekh, vice president and general manager of the Volume Products Group at Sun Microelectronics. "We believe that a Java processor, combined with Toshiba's contribution, will achieve a new level of performance, cost and power consumption for a vast array of mobile applications. " Mr. Parekh expects the first devices using the low-power Sun Java processor technology to be available in the first half of 1998. "Sun's Java processor technology has a clear fit with the requirements for next generation mobile Java Sun JavaChip family consists of the picoJava About Toshiba About Sun
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