I don't think there are any Java chips anymore are there ?  In any case, even
if a chip is designed (and I think they /dd/ exist once) to execute the JVM
bytecode set, just executing that bytecode doesn't in itself make the chip into
a JVM -- there's a great deal of extra logic (method lookup, for instance)
which is needed to make a complete runtime platform.

I'm really not sure what you mean by "networking" a processor.  You may mean
"can they be assembled into clusters with more-or-less shared memory ?", or you
may mean "can they be connected to a LAN ?".  I have never heard of a Java chip
intended to be clustered (doesn't mean they didn't exist), so I'll assume the
latter.  /Any/ chip can be networked, since that is a property of the device it
is part of, not of the chip itself.  For instance, if I were building a
hand-held computer which ran Java "on the metal" (not an especially good idea,
IMO), then presumably I'd also put networking hardware in the same box, and my
implementation of the sockets/NIO part of the Java Standard Platform would talk
in a hardware-specific way to that.

   -- chris

You'll have to check Google to see what state that technology is in.

Cheers,
Matt Humphrey  matth@ivizNOSPAM.com http://www.iviz.com/