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To: JC Jaros who wrote (18704)	8/19/1999 6:23:00 PM
From: Michael F. Donadio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

The Enterprise Appliance is Coming! zdnet.com Sun's Executive Shuffle Tirado leaves for start-up firm. By Deborah Gage, Sm@rt Reseller Software president Alan Baratz is not the only high-profile exec to depart Sun Microsystems this month. Sun also is searching for a replacement for VP Steve Tirado, who has left Sun's Network Computer Division to join a start-up company. Tirado's departure surprised some Sun partners, since Sun will launch in New York next month a Java-based "enterprise appliance" that is supposed to fulfill some of the promise that Sun's JavaStation did not. But Tirado says that while he is "very excited" by Sun's upcoming offering, the opportunity to become VP of marketing at Silicon Image Inc. was too good to pass up. Silicon Image developed the technology behind the Digital Visual Interface specification, which defines a high-speed data link between digital displays and their hosts, and will go public soon. Intel is entitled to purchase shares and has signed a patent license agreement with Silicon Image, according to an amended S1 filed with the SEC. ... I don't know how Sun's 'enterprise appliance' will compare with Alcatel's which I have seen and like very much, but if successful we will be opening a whole new era of connecting to the internet without traditional PCs. I presume at first the target markets will be different with Sun's Corona targeting business and Alcatel targeting consumers. I understand Alcatel's product will be sold through AOL. Michael

To: JC Jaros who wrote (18704)	8/19/1999 11:47:00 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

MAJC combines multiprocessing, multithreading features eetimes.com "Multithreading will be the next hot topic in microprocessor architectures," said Marc Tremblay, chief architect for the MAJC project. "Most chips today that are attempting to incorporate parallel processing are doing it at the instruction level, but we are focusing on the thread level, which delivers much more performance." Multithreading involves breaking down the various tasks in one or more applications into several threads and scheduling them for the most efficient use of the microprocessor's computing power. When one task results in a cache-miss, the processor will have an idle period while the system imports data from the main memory. Multithreading allows the CPU to work on a different thread during that down time. "The overall throughput is much higher," said Tremblay. "While the first thread will finish at about the same time as it would on a traditional CPU, in this case the same processor can complete several other things at the same time."