Sun's Enchilada, Chalupa plans leaked

A REPORT ON SUN HELP points to a PDF document on a Korean Sun server which appears to leak many of the firm's product plans for Q1 to Q3 of next year.

The product codenamed "Enchilada" is a 2P machine with both 1U and 2U rackmounted versions and Chalupa is a 4P/4U piece of Sun tin.

The 1U Enchilada will support 8GB of memory, doubled for the 2U version, while the Chalupa 4U will have support for 32GB of memory.

The page reveals that Enchilada will launch with 950MHz-1.1GHz UltraSPARC IIIi chips, codenamed Jalapeno (didn't Cyrix use this codename) in Q3.

In the next two quarters, Sun will introduce a workstation version and ramp the clock speeds on the Jalapenos up to 1.2GHz and 1.4GHz.

Remember the V-Bots that got the INQ in trouble with Sun earlier this year, when we were told not to point at a public web site because it held proprietary information?

The Korean Sun document has picture and specs for the V1280 we talked about then - it's an enhanced v480/880 supporting 12 UltraSPARCy chips, and suggests the Sun Fire 4800, the current 12P midrange servers, are a bit pricey.

Most people familiar with Sun's plans appear to think the new machines next year will be real goers. Here's the Sun Help site, which points to the 38-page Korean leak. Get it while you can. µ

* THE DENVER POST reports that Sun will axe 350 jobs in Colorado, with most people finding out their fate this week.

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