Digital Journey - The Future of Microprocessor Development according to Sun. The webcasts include:

Customer Viewpoints

Anant Agrawal and John Shoemaker discuss experiences with customers. They discuss real experiences with customers and the challenges they face in their businesses. Customers of today differ from the customer of five to ten years ago. Performance issues have changed and requirements for processors have changed.

Design Engineers

Anant Agrawal discusses with Director of Engineering, Le Quach, and design engineer Dale Greenley how Sun's UltraSPARC team focuses on and prioritizes design objectives. Discussion on challenges of designing the highly complex, massively scalable UltraSPARC III processor and some of the key features.

Technical Perspectives

Bill Joy talks with John Gage about system architectures and various elements of CISC, RISC, VLIW and the SPARC architecture vs. Intel's IA-64 architecture. They also discuss advances in microprocessor design and how Sun develops and designs microprocessors.
 
Joy and Gage continue with an historical overview (~1970 to present) of Sparc architectures, the early days of chip design and the evolution of design architectures: CISC, RISC, VLIW. Finally they cover reliability issues as it relates to current and future processor development.

Integrated Systems

Greg Papadopoulos and John Gage discuss how Sun builds large-scale systems that integrate technology from the entire company - starting all the way down at the chip level. Greg addresses building integrated stacks for specific applications and Sun's expertise in scalability, uptime optimization and reliability. (Part 1)
 
Greg Papadopoulos and John Gage continue to discuss how Sun builds large-scale systems that integrate technology from the entire company - starting all the way down at the chip level. (Part 2)