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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Ali Chen who wrote (30979)4/4/1998 1:13:00 AM
From: AK2004  Read Replies (2) of 1573433
 
Ali
Intel may be facing more competition in high end. Bloomberg just released note on new Elbrus - E2K which was designed by 200 Russian scientists and financed by Sun Microsystems. The older version of Elbrus already running in test sparc systems in the field trials that is by companies with high computational requirements. That is coming when a lot of intel investors wrote off sparc as a contender for future high end.
E2K is using post-RISC (whatever that means) approach. It is characterized as most effective and the fastest processor in the world. It will likely be more effective in computational operation than Merced. The post-RISC approach was originally designed for Russian super-computers and completely different (whatever that means) from currently used x86 or RISC platforms.
It was mentioned that because of the difficulties in economy Russian designers had to concentrate on logic and effectiveness rather than rely on hardware/technology. And "economic" approach paid-off in E2K by not only making it the fastest but also most efficient with a small transistor count.
The elbrus team is currently in negotiations for foundry and/or licesing of the chip to Sun and other manufacturers.
So we might see Paul screaming commies again soon.
Regards
-Albert
ps it is expected that E2K may make to western markets (us included) by 2000.
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