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Sun's Zippy New Chips

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Only 900mhz? by colinm1981 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I thought Itanium ran at 800mhz max....

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    -Colin
  2. RISC/CISC by silicon_synapse · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the Itanium a CISC-based processor while the sparc is a RISC-based processor. Even at 900MHz, it should outperform most CISC-based processors. Or should I stop posting at 8AM?

  3. completely differant and now by johnjones · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    well I have to say that the HHGTG was on the googlebox last night very shocking

    and amuseing

    the improberbility drive had me in fits of laughter proberly

    ah well if only that women had not forgotton how everyone could be happy and live in peace

    damn her

    regards

    john jones

  4. Hmm! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wow, imagine a Beowulf cluster of these...