Newisys close to Sun AMD deal

PATRICK SAYS that Newisys, acquired earlier this year by Sanmina-SCI, is close to signing a deal with Sun Microsystems for a four way Opteron box.

The box is codenamed Sobek, and if you're wondering what that means, Pat tells me that it's the name of a very weird Egyptian god, also called Sebek, or Sebek Ra.

Ra, appropriately enough, is the sun god. They get a lot of sun in Egypt.

The firm was called "Newisys" after a goddess called Isis, or Ast, and this explains the riddle of the sphinx.

The only thing that apparently remains to be done is figure out the exact specifications of Sobek, he says. µ