Sun's Zippy New Chips

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday July 31, 2001 @11:59PM from the ra-would-approve dept.

Mark the Revelator writes: "Reuters has a story about Sun unveiling it's latest and greatest UltraSparcIII chips. The new chips are being made by TI and are the first UltraSparcs to use copper instead of aluminum for transistor connections. Although they're supposed to compete with Intel's Itanium chips, they only run at 900MHz ... for now."

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Re:Stop the slaughter by sharkey · 2001-08-01 03:56 · Score: 5, Funny

Won't somebody PLEASE think of the child processes?!?!

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Re:F1 vs. Honda in chick appeal by anticypher · 2001-08-01 01:04 · Score: 3, Funny

An F1 stuck in down-town NYC would certainly attract more chicks than an Accord in Montana. Isn't that why we choose the flashiest hardware we can, to get more chicks? :-)

On the other hand, a sparc runs the software I want to run, and the software I earn tons of money from. So of course, having tons of money gets higher quality chicks better than any car :-)

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[not a politically correct post since I'm in a country which has outlawed 'Merkin correctness]

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Cool. by sporty · 2001-08-01 00:09 · Score: 2, Funny

They run 900mhz for now, but when sun hits a switch, they all will overclock themselves!
With the same switch, world peace will come, britney spears will have some talent and just maybe, code redworm will stop being a "threat". Ok ok.. I went overboard witht he britney spears thing, sorry ;)

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New chips by Captain+Bonzo · 2001-08-01 00:10 · Score: 1, Funny

Yes, but are they compatible with high speed fish?
Stop the slaughter by 91degrees · 2001-08-01 00:15 · Score: 4, Funny

Millions of innocent instructions are being executed every day. The latest generation of processors is killing these instructions faster and more efficiently.
How in a civilised society can we sit back and let this apocolypse happen? I say its time to end this now. Boycott processors. Save the instructions
1. Re:Stop the slaughter by coreman · 2001-08-01 00:33 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Did they get the execution speed up by going with Texas Instruments?
2. Re:Stop the slaughter by ceeam · 2001-08-01 01:57 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  Somehow they still manage to retire after being executed. Well, probably things are not that bad for them..