Azul systems made custom hardware for around a decade, tuned for running Java and highly parallel (IIRC they had 256 core systems when Intel was selling 4 core systems). Also had hardware accelerated GC, so people with large heap problems would talk to them.
With the rising ubiquity of Intel VT extensions, they figured out how to put the VM into JVM, particularly for accelerated GC, and it looks like they got out of the hardware business. All I see on their product page is runtimes. And now that Oracle wants to charge people for their JVM, I suspect they have more customers now.
With the rising ubiquity of Intel VT extensions, they figured out how to put the VM into JVM, particularly for accelerated GC, and it looks like they got out of the hardware business. All I see on their product page is runtimes. And now that Oracle wants to charge people for their JVM, I suspect they have more customers now.