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Sun's Zippy New Chips

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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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?