From: Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 06:40:56 +0800
To: users@ssz.com (SSZ User Mail List)
Subject: IBM cpu breaks 1GHz barrier [CNN]
Message-ID: <199802042241.QAA06983@einstein.ssz.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text



Forwarded message:

>    IBM breaks 1,000 MHz
>    
>    More related sites... NEW YORK (CNNfn) - Engineers at an International
>    Business Machines Corp. research facility in Austin, Texas, Wednesday
>    demonstrated the world's first computer chip to break the 1,000 MHz
>    barrier.
>    [INLINE] The chip operates at 1 billion cycles per second. The fastest
>    commercial microprocessors today operate at around 300 MHz. However,
>    computer users won't be able to run out and buy a PC containing the
>    chip anytime soon. IBM isn't expected to make it available
>    commercially for at least two years.
>    [INLINE] The news comes just days after rival Digital Equipment
>    introduced a new version of its Alpha chip that it said would break
>    the 1,000 MHz barrier. Digital Equipment, which hasn't yet hit that
>    mark, also said it would take at least two years for the chip to be
>    available.
>    [INLINE] IBM will issue a research paper detailing the chip, along
>    with two related microprocessor papers, at the International Solid
>    State Circuit Conference in San Francisco Friday.


    ____________________________________________________________________
   |                                                                    |
   |       The most powerful passion in life is not love or hate,       |
   |       but the desire to edit somebody elses words.                 |
   |                                                                    |
   |                                  Sign in Ed Barsis' office         |
   |                                                                    | 
   |            _____                             The Armadillo Group   |
   |         ,::////;::-.                           Austin, Tx. USA     |
   |        /:'///// ``::>/|/                     http://www.ssz.com/   |
   |      .',  ||||    `/( e\                                           |
   |  -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'-                         Jim Choate       |
   |                                                 ravage@ssz.com     |
   |                                                  512-451-7087      |
   |____________________________________________________________________|