Latest station on Sun Microsystems’ whistle-stop acquisition tour is a privately held firm called Trancept Systems Inc, location not given, which develops and sells application accelerator products. Sun has a letter of intent to acquire the firm for Sun shares worth about $5m. Trancept’s key product is the TAAC-1 graphics and applications accelerator, designed to increase performance of computation- and graphics-intensive applications such as geometric modelling, medical imaging and broadcast animation.
SUN TO ACQUIRE SOFTWARE ACCELERATOR TRANCEPT
