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To: Rusty Johnson who wrote (14411)	2/22/1999 12:55:00 AM
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The Cold War Yields a Superchip by Leander Kahney Wired Online 5:50 p.m. 19.Feb.99.PST A team that built supercomputers for the Soviet military in the Cold War has reportedly designed a chip that promises to be more powerful than anything the West can muster. But the company is too broke to build it. Led by Boris Babaian, the so-called "Father of Soviet Supercomputing," the engineers at Russia's Elbrus International have designed a chip that bears a resemblance to Intel's and Hewlett Packard's next-generation Merced processor. But this design would outperform that processor by a factor of three. wired.com ... Diefendorff said the Russians told him the E2k will be compatible with both the x86 and Merced architectures, thanks to a binary compiler patented by Babaian. "This is a bunch of very smart guys. They have the knowledge and the mathematics behind them, but not the manufacturing capabilities." According to press reports, Elbrus has been looking for financing since 1996. Since the early 1990s, the company has worked with a number of Silicon Valley firms, primarily Sun Microsystems. Neither Elbrus, nor Sun Microsystems, could be reached for comment.

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