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To: chic_hearne who wrote (23209)	9/29/2000 4:03:48 PM
From: LLCF	Respond to of 436258

<Luc, nice puke into the close. I hope it continues Monday.> Ho ho... Nasdung down 4%.... don't worry, it's "index specific"! LOL DAK

To: chic_hearne who wrote (23209)	9/30/2000 7:31:32 PM
From: LLCF	Respond to of 436258

Here's some info on the .15u chip I mentioned: NEW YORK -- Sun Microsystems Inc. unveiled its UltraSparc III processor generation here Thursday, with initial speeds of 600 to 900 MHz and an on-chip memory controller that handles up to 8 Gbytes of storage. Sun (stock: SUNW) also laid out a new product road map, setting a target for 1.5-GHz UltraSparc III processors in 2001 and successive MPU generations that lead to the introduction of a 2.1-GHz UltraSparc V in 2003. The new UltraSparc III chip is being produced by Texas Instruments Inc., which is using a 0.15-micron process technology to make the RISC processor. The high-end 900-MHz UlraSparc III is being made with copper interconnects, while the initial 600- and 750-MHz processors are being fabricated with aluminum-metal layers. The UltraSparc III has 29 million transistors and seven layers of metal interconnect. The memory controller and system controller functions occupy one-third of the UltraSparc III chip, according to Sun. The 900-MHz copper-based UltraSparc III processor will be ready for system shipments in the first quarter of 2001, said Ron Melanson, senior director of engineering for Sparc processors at Sun. "We are now ramping copper production [at TI] and have 900-MHz processors in-house for qualification of systems," he said Wednesday. DAK