Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E_K_S who wrote (32162)	5/21/2000 9:44:00 PM
From: techtonicbull	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

SUNW is known for their honest press releases. I hope that this "faster" clock speed "problem" is not masking another problem that is more serious in the engineering of the USIII chip.

To: E_K_S who wrote (32162)	5/21/2000 11:36:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Respond to of 64865

Hi Eric- Zander was talking about the higher speeds in Dec/Jan. While they were taping out the UltraIIIs, they were also playing with the faster speeds. --- I didn't read anything about delays to do with timig probs. My undertanding is that the UltraIIIs as planned (original clock speeds) are on track. I think the faster chips are on a different track (BWDIK). That's the impression I've gotten, apart from the noise coming from HP, IBM and Compaq sales people. -JCJ

To: E_K_S who wrote (32162)	5/22/2000 8:43:00 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Eric - this is a pretty strange statement. Processors have a "speed curve" which is the range of speed which the processor can run at while remaining in spec. Typically the result is a bell curve (no surprise there) with yields for design center speed determined by how close the process gets to the target speeds. Having the design center BELOW the peak of the curve is good news - more parts qualify at the speed target, and the higher speed parts can be culled out and sold at a higher spec. But the notion that the processor is "too fast" is just crap. SUNW could bring the products out at whatever design speed they had, using parts from the lower end of the speed curve, and introduce re-designed faster systems when those are available. I hope they clarify what they mean, the statement as it stands is nonsense.