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ROSS RAISES HYPERSPARC SPEED
(August 28th 1995) Fujitsu Ltd's Ross Technology Inc unit is upping the
Sparc ante, winding the clock speed of its HyperSparc RISC to 200MHz.
The two-way superscalar iteration, called Colorado IV, is done to 0.35
micron design rules and comes with 512Kb or 1Mb secondary cache and 16Kb
on-chip cache. Ross claims the part will deliver UltraSparc-level
performance, it estimates 235 SPECint92, but has no floating point
numbers. Tape-out is in six weeks, with samples in the first quarter of
next year. The 150MHz HyperSparc is now in production, doing 180
SPECint92 and 245 SPECfp92 with 512Kb L2 cache.