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To: E_K_S who wrote (32164)	5/21/2000 10:50:00 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Maybe all it means is putting faster clocks on the boards and changing a few glue chips to higher speed versions. The nice thing is that it'll probably debut at a higher clock speed than originally planned (or evolve more quickly to higher clocks). JMHO.

To: E_K_S who wrote (32164)	5/21/2000 11:38:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Respond to of 64865

Eric, as I recall, Jean reported that he saw USIIIs in a workstation line, not servers. Either he should have said servers, or Sun is trying out the new CPU chips in a smaller configuration first, or maybe they're at some stage in the E series development and he just didn't see it. I have no idea, just posting what I saw Jean describe. Just thought of this though, most companies do not give tours of unreleased product line areas to non-employees. Tony

To: E_K_S who wrote (32164)	5/23/2000 10:19:00 AM
From: E_K_S	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

From IndividualInvstor.com- May 23, 2000 Magic 25?: Quarter on Track at Sun Microsystems (http://www.individualinvestor.com/tbd/article.asp?ID=21928) "...Management made a few other announcements regarding future products. First, Sun said that the UltraSparc-III microprocessor line would be coming out in the September quarter. The new chips are designed to run at 600 Mhz, and are expected to receive a warm welcome in the market. Sun also plans to roll out new data storage products on June 14. It is unclear what strategy the company will employ in this new business, but many projections have the storage market expanding by more than 50% annually for the near future, which is much faster than Sun's current growth rate..." ============================================================ This article states that the new UltraIII chips are designed to run at 600mhz but from an earlier article management stated that faster speeds have been tested at 900mhz (with slight timing problems). That's a 50% increase in cycle speed. Are these the same microprocessors? EKS