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To: Sonki who wrote (14750)	12/17/1997 9:26:00 PM
From: Flair	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27012

Sonki, Thanks for your reference message. Of course, Sun has a plan for 1GHz, but currently they are working on chips running at 600Mhz. Sun has a very good reputution in designing processors. However, going up to 600Mhz, they need to work very hard to reduce critical paths in the design (1.70 nano second) (1 nano second = 1/1,000,000,000 second). This is a very difficult task, since Sparc architecture is too complicated to reduce critical paths further. As far as I know, they never announce or hint that they have finished the initial design which meets timing requirements. Here is my experience. Running software on Linux (a free PC Unix) in 133Mhz Pentinum is much faster than a Sparc20. Thus, I believe that running Linux in a Pentinum II @300MHz is likely to be at least as fast as the latest UltraSparc II chips. Thus, I believe that Merced chips are also possible candiates for Solaris workstations. Using Merced, Sun can eliminate the chance that Windows NT has an advantage on hardware. IMHO, the trading curve of EFII in the past few days looks very terrible. They didn't have a dead-cat bounce which lets me think that the slaughter is not finished yet.