SUN AND TI RELEASE COPPER INTERCONNECT-BASED ULTRASPARC[tm] III PROCESSORS TO SYSTEMS MANUFACTURING
At 900 MHz, the World's Fastest 64-bit Workstation-Server Processor
DALLA, TX -- July 30, 2001 -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) and Texas Instruments Incorporated (NYSE: TXN), confirmed today that copper interconnect-based versions of the award-winning UltraSPARC[tm] III microprocessor have passed all internal qualifications tests and are planned for shipment in Sun Blade[tm] 1000 workstations within the next 90 days. At 900 MHz, the new version of the UltraSPARC III processor combines copper interconnect with low-K dielectric, and a 100 nanometer gate transistor to maintain its status as the world's fastest commercially available 64-bit workstation-server processor.
It would appear that SUN and its software supporters, with many years of experience developing for the SPARC 64-bit platform, have slammed the door on the 800MHZ Itanic with the 900MHZ UltraSPARC.
Too bad 800MHZ Itanic didn't set sail 2 years ago as scheduled. Instead, it waited too long, and is now headed for an iceberg named 900MHZ UltraSPARC.
Check out what Itanic is up against:
sun.com
Sun has been shipping 64-bit systems and software that runs on them for years. Sun left a window open for two years, stuck around 333MHZ - if Itanic had shipped during that period it would have had an open field in which to run, but now... |
