The Amazing Integrated Microprocessor

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday October 10, 2000 @02:33AM from the but-it's-still-just-vapor dept.

An anonymous reader wrote in to say that "SiByte Inc. has announced the Mercurian processor SB-1250, a single chip containing two MIPS64 CPU capable of running up to 1GHz, plus a 512kByte L2 Cache, PCI, gigabit ethernet (3) and serial (2) interfaces. The whole chip consumes a mere 10 watts with both processors and all interfaces running at full speed. While it is targeted at networking and communications systems, wouldn't you like to have a notebook allowing to carry with you that much processing power? The chip will be able in volume mid next year, and the data sheet states, they will provide support for porting NetBSD and Linux to it." Sure it's vapor, but it sounds pretty impressive.

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Sure its vapor, but it sounds pretty impressive... by nagora · 2000-10-09 21:44 · Score: 4

Is not the most insightful comment I've ever seen. Vapourware always looks impressive.

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