Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!pacbell!ames!apple!sun-barr!newstop!sun!chiba!khb From: khb%chiba@Sun.COM (Keith Bierman - SPD Languages Marketing -- MTS) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: FPU chip set Message-ID: <119143@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 2 Aug 89 18:03:01 GMT References: <871@stag.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Reply-To: khb@sun.UUCP (Keith Bierman - SPD Languages Marketing -- MTS) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 29 In article grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu writes: > >Now that there's an 80Mhz (I think it was) SPARC out, how is the Prisma >chip going to find a market niche? Prisma doesn't make chips. They build systems. As I understand it, it will be a 4nsec (i.e. 250 native MIPS) IU, 100mflops (peak or sustained ?) FPU up to 32 channel controllers, and other associated goodies. So, if they can build and ship in sometime in the first half of next year, it should give E&S, Convex, Alliant and Multiflow a run for their money. > >Will ted marry alice? No. >And about about those aliens? Probably win the pennant race. >God I love RISC. :> Keith H. Bierman |*My thoughts are my own. Only my work belongs to Sun* It's Not My Fault | Marketing Technical Specialist ! kbierman@sun.com I Voted for Bill & | Languages and Performance Tools. Opus (* strange as it may seem, I do more engineering now *)