Sun is licensing a group of patents to ARM Holdings. ARM produces processors, physical IP, cache and SoC designs and the software and development tools that developers need to for product design.

Sun licensed its chip multithreading processor design to ARM who plans to use Sun's Java chip multithreading, input/output, memory and power management technologies in a variety of connected devices, according to an IDG report.

As Cnet.com reports, the licensing deal will give AMR the right to use Java on all its chips.

Fadi Azhari, director of marketing for SPARC CMT technology, said that Sun is "unleashing this huge innovation that we have at the silicon level, with CMT, to enable other companies to be successful and build that marketplace."

ARM has also transferred its Java and graphics licenses from SavaJE to Sun, according to an ARM press release. The licenses include the ARM Swerve Client software and ARM Jazelle Java Technology Enabling Kit (JTEK). sun recently acquired the assests of SavaJE Technologies. ARM will become part of the Java Community Process (JCP). [...read more...]

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