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

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (16684)	5/28/1999 12:37:00 PM
From: Mephisto	Respond to of 64865

[Big question: to what extent, if any, will prospective buyers of Sun machines postpone purchases to wait for the new machines?] Many, many years ago when I was a new SUN investor, Sun's earnings came up short one quarter because the company's customers waited for its new workstation. **************************************************** Yep! TI makes most of SUNW's chips. And TI will make new chip for Ultra Sparc III. IMOP if TI makes chip, it will be a winner. Sun Microsystems Tests New Chip PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) - Volume production of Sun Microsystems Inc.'s (Nasdaq:SUNW - news)UltraSparc-III microprocessor is expected to begin by the end of this year. New computer servers and workstations based on the high-speed chip are planned for next spring, according to today's edition of The Wall Street Journal. Engineers have already tested the chips to boot up Sun's Solaris operating system, The Journal said. Next, the chips will undergo a series of tests designed to exercise as many of its operating modes as possible. The UltraSparc-III, with 23 million transistors and operating speeds of 600 megahertz, is the latest entry from Palo Alto-based Sun in the race to deliver high-end computing systems used by big networks and Internet businesses. Mel Friedman, president of Sun's microelectronics division, said Sun received the first samples of the chips three weeks ago from Texas Instruments Inc. (NYSE:TXN - news), The Journal reported. Texas Instruments produces most of Sun's chips.** Cheers, M..............