Sun and Intel

Not too sure about this one. Sure they have worked together for years but I feel that grabbing the marketshare by touting the Intel logo is not really in Sun's best interest. Do whats best for the consumer. Suns own chips are by far more efficient than Intels. Remember the release of the Gallaxy servers and the Niagra chip? Limiting power consumption was a key component in the design of those products and Sun was on to something big. It takes a lot of cooling to run a data center, big costs are involved. So why the jump to Intel before looking at AMD's quadcore chip? And what of these new non-silicon chips? Are there some serious prototypes to use or is it all hooyey? Now as I understand the new material chips will have significantly reduced power leakage and a small up tick in speed but compared to the boost of a quadcore? Will there be any comparison? Not to mention the fact that AMD may even leapfrog Intel and release the quadcore on the same material. Now a lot of naysayers will contend that while Moore's law does in fact hold true that things are getting faster and faster they may also say that the extra speed is not really even necessary. Well it is in the respect that quadcore should really be put onto video cards and soundcards at the same time as motherboards. Now that would be something really interesting if its even possible. Well thats it for today.