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To: Sonki who wrote (42170)	3/19/2001 9:28:18 PM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	Respond to of 64865

Each Power4 chip includes two >1GHz cores with large on chip shared L2 cache built in a .18um SOI technology. Four of these chips (8 cores) will make up each Muti Chip Module. This technology is scheduled to debut this fall and will not be late. It will blow USIII away whenever it arrives. If I were a SUN long, I'd be starting the countdown for UltraSparc IV. yahoofin.cnet.com "Partitioning," which lets customers divide servers such as Sun's top-end E10000 machine into several independent computers, is a standard mainframe feature. But as Khan likes to ask, "Why should it be that it's (Sun's) Solaris that offers partitioning and not IBM's version of Unix?" Sun was there first with Unix servers that could be partitioned, but IBM's "Regatta" Unix server, due this fall, likely will outpace Sun's partitioning technology, Eunice said. Where the smallest partitions allowed on Sun machines are four-processor boards, Regatta will feature mainframe-like abilities to have a partition running on a single processor or even a fraction of a processor, he said. "It's not like a mainframe, it is a mainframe," Eunice said. "Five years ago, that would have been death, but today I don't think you have to apologize for using mainframe components." IBM is bringing chip packaging technology as well as partitioning from mainframes to Unix servers, Zeitler said. "Multichip modules," the grouping of several chips within a single package that first was used by IBM in its mainframes in 1998, also will arrive with Regatta, Eunice said. "Multichip modules are serious big-iron technology," Eunice said. "There is a genuineness to the cross-product line sharing that is coming about...It makes me bullish on their ability not to spend all their time bickering with each other."