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To: Paul Engel who wrote (86518)	8/2/1999 10:53:00 PM
From: dmf	Respond to of 186894

Paul: PicoJava, MicroJava, UltraJava....where are these World Shattering chips? From the EE Times article, posted earlier: "Sun is looking for MAJC to change its fortunes. The device is built around a powerful UltraJava core that executes 128-bit-wide very-long-instruction-word (VLIW) instructions. MAJC also incorporates digital signal processing capability and is adept at handling gigabytes per second of streaming data, according to the project's lead architect, Marc Tremblay, a distinguished engineer at Sun. Equally important, MAJC is scalable, so implementations can range from single -- or dual-processor embedded versions to full-blown multiprocessing engines that contain all the cores on a single die." Intel will take this seriously (that's one reason Intel has my confidence!). Still, there will be chips EVERYWHERE and in EVERYTHING in years to come. I believe there will be room for more than one design. Now, whether or not MAJC will succeed is another question. dmf

To: Paul Engel who wrote (86518)	8/3/1999 9:29:00 AM
From: Eylon	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul - By the way - SUN has been doing SPARC CPU designs for about 12 years - they are not NEW to this game - merely inefficient. SUN compete with Intel on chip design not chip making. It is the chip making part that is Intel greatest strength, and the source of SUN inefficiency. As I wrote in my original post, the playing fields are changing. SUN strategy of concentrating on software AND designing CPUs that are better at executing targeted areas MAY be more successful than Intel strategy of being the best chip making company. Intel is now at a better position and my money is on Intel but, I hope that Intel management will not be as dismissive as you are toward SUN. Eylon