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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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RISC/CISC by silicon_synapse · 2001-08-01 00:03 · 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?