Big Announcement Tomorrow!! Sun sheds light on chip path
By Michael Kanellos (Staff Writer, CNET News.com)
August 31, 1998, 5:25 p.m. PT
(http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,25900,00.html)
"...Sun will essentially reveal a general calendar and performance targets for future releases of the UltraSparc family of microprocessors, according to sources at Sun...."
"...By 2002, Sun will be commercially producing the UltraSparc V, which will run at 1.5 GHz (1,500 MHz), or in terms of raw speed, about four times the rating of Sun's fastest chip now. It will be made, eventually, on an ultrafine manufacturing process, according to sources at the company..."
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With Sunw working on porting Solaris to run on the new Intel Merced products and the UltraSparc V slated for 2002, it appears that a good line of products are shapping up.
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