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From: schwartz@gondor.psu.edu (Scott E. Schwartz)
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Subject: Re: Information Request: Sun's SPARC Chip
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Date: Fri, 13-Nov-87 19:55:10 EST
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In article <18203@amdahl.amdahl.com> chuck@amdahl.amdahl.com (Charles Simmons) writes:
> With such a small number
>of gates, the SPARC chip should be implementable in ECL or GaAs, neh?
>Hasn't Sun farmed out production of the SPARC chip to some chip maker
>who will be building an ECL version of the chip? 

I attended a talk this afternoon given by Sun on the Sun4/SPARC.
The speaker (Chris Younger) indicated that this is the case.
To paraphrase, he said that Sun just designed the chip and they are leaving
the construction of it to experts.  I'm pretty sure he mentioned ECL
as coming soon.


-- Scott Schwartz            schwartz@gondor.psu.edu